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151	Birth: Aug. 28, 1919 Emporia Lyon County Kansas, USA Death: Apr. 21, 2006 Council Grove Morris County Kansas, USA Married to Olen Harley Grimmett Family links: Parents: Charles Otis Collyer (1875 - 1926) Verna Leona Mechtley Collyer (1892 - 1926) Spouse: Olen Harley Grimmett (1916 - 1962)* Sibling: Esther Emelie Collyer Grimmett (1919 - 2006) Carl Otis Collyer (1923 - 1992)* *Calculated relationship Inscription: Mom Burial: Greenwood Cemetery Council Grove Morris County Kansas, USA Plot: S9	Esther Emilie Collyer
152	http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93443947 Birth: Dec. 9, 1807 Somerset Pulaski County Kentucky, USA Death: Nov. 24, 1889 DeKalb County Missouri, USA Father; John Colyer of Virginia Family links: Spouse: Catherine Smith Collyer (1813 - 1899) Children: William Collier (____ - 1864)* Lucy Ann Collyer Humphrey (1852 - 1942)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Wamsley Cemetery Fordham DeKalb County Missouri, USA	William Collyer
153	https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc4300/sc4341/html/intro.html During the first years of his Province of Maryland, 1633-1681, Lord Baltimore rewarded people who transported themselves or others with rights to land, usually called headrights. For most of the period, the reward was a right to 50 acres of land per person transported. To enter and exercise his rights, a person had to give the names of those, including himself, whom he had transported. Therefore, the records of these transactions include the names of the settlers. From these records, lists of settlers have been made since early in the nineteenth century. But only in 1968 was one published. This was Gust Skordas's The Early Settlers of Maryland, immediately a cornerstone of genealogy. In 1997 A Supplement corrected and enlarged The Early Settlers. Now The New Early Settlers of Maryland, a complete revision, replaces Skordas's work. In 1975 Russell Menard wrote that the "best estimate" of immigration to Maryland between 1634 and 1681 is 32,000 (Economy and Society in Early Colonial Maryland, 1975, pp. 175-6). The New Early Settlers has about 34,000 entries, which, allowing for duplications, is close to Menard's estimate. except family members, most settlers transported by others were bound to serve their transporters, usually for four or five years. That is, they were servants and in the records are often so called. But the label "servant" was no stigma. In the seventeenth century it had meanings different from those of today. It denoted a person of low class and menial occupation. The settlers closest to the modern idea of servants were those shipped by the dozen. They are listed some times as "servants," some times as "persons," and some times as both.	William Collyer
154	In helping us to understand better the records of migration to Maryland, Dr. Gibb has focused our attention on the headright system, not only whether its records are reliable, but also on when and why it ended. It was initiated by Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore, as an inducement to those considering emigration to Maryland. The promise of land is a powerful attraction and figures often in the development of America. When and why it was terminated is not widely known. The title page and the entries in Early Settlers imply that it ended in 1680, but Warrants WC4 has warrants issued for headrights as late as spring 1682/83. These questions give a glimpse of the vicissitudes of administering a colonial venture. Charles Calvert, the Third Lord Baltimore, first suggested that he was going to abolish the headright system in a proclamation issued June 3, 1676. He complained that his agents had not properly returned many of the rights to land proved before them to be entered among the records. Even when this was done, he was not certain that the secretaries had made the appropriate entries. Calvert believed that, as a result, "the titles of divers of the said adventurers to their land are dubious and questionable and may hereafter be questioned to the great prejudice of the inhabitants of this province in after times when things cannot be made appear." Having suggested that the current system was not effective, he stated his intention to cease offering land in return for providing transportation to the province within two years. (LAND OFFICE (Patents) 19:459-460 MSA S11-23) Despite reiterating his desire to end the system of headrights in 1678 and issuing several further proclamations to that effect, the Proprietor issued two extensions that, in effect, appear to have kept the headright system alive. In June of 1678, he allowed eight more months for rights to land to be proved. The first was an order for the relief of residents in Somerset County dated June 14, 1678. It did not extend the time in which people could immigrate or be transported and claim a headright to land. It merely offered additional time to prove rights to land due to those already in the province. (LAND OFFICE (Patents) 19:636-637 MSA S11-23) The second proclamation, dated June 19, 1678, applied the terms suggested for Somerset County to the whole colony, however, noting that "severall inhabitants of this province have informed me, that by reason of the late troubles with the Indians, and other urgent occasions in their cropps hindering, they could not attend the Secretary's Office for finding out their Patents." It does not forbid the issuance of new headrights for new arrivals. (GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) RR:164 MSA S1071-7) Thus, it does not appear that the practice of granting land for immigrants ceased with either of these orders. Another proclamation, dated May 15, 1683, again stated that land would be sold for 100 lbs of tobacco per fifty acres. Lord Baltimore emphasized that "the taking up of land by rights within this our province of Maryland hath proved not only grievous and burthensome to the inhabitants -- for paying for the same extravagant and extortious rates when to be procured but also very injurious and prejudiciall to ourselves by undue and unjust probate made of such rights." (GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) RR:190 MSA S1071-7) Lord Baltimore's stated concerns in ending the system are essentially (a) that his agents had not been diligent in performing their duties, thus jeopardizing title to land for those who received grants; (b) the process was very expensive for the prospective landowner; and © he believed the administration of the system had deprived the Proprietor of a great deal of income. The cause of these concerns was the speculative manipulation of the system. A thriving business had evolved in the rights assigned by those entitled to land. While a number of people appear to have prospered in this trade, Lord Baltimore did not profit. Further, while the market for the headrights was thriving and warrants for land were being bought and sold, the expected surveying and taking up of land did not follow. Lord Baltimore's revenue came from the fees for warrants, certificates of survey, and patents and from the quitrents paid on land once it was patented. So not only had the system not benefited Lord Baltimore, but the speculation that sprang from it may actually have hindered the settlement upon which his income depended. Further complicating matters was the influence of the people involved in this speculation, most of Lord Baltimore's principal officials. John Llewellin, Clerk of the Council and Vincent Lowe, Surveyor General, received a number of assignments. So did other members of the Provincial Council: Henry Darnall, William Stevens, George Talbot, and William Digges. Their participation certainly is one of the reasons why the end of the headright system was delayed until 1683. The occasion of the end of the system was probably the fall in the price of tobacco. It reduced the number of new settlers claiming land and thus made speculation in headrights a marginal undertaking. Considering the status of the participants, this must have been a convenient juncture at which to end the practice. Whatever may be learned in the future about the end of the headright system, what we have learned is partly due to Dr. Gibb's work.	William Collyer
155	Maryland headright claims for land: per wiki A headright refers to a legal grant of land given to settlers during the period of European colonization in the Americas. A "headright" includes both the grant of land and the owner (the head) that claims the land. The person who has a right to the land is the one who paid to transport people to a colony.[1] Headrights are most notable for their role in the expansion of the Thirteen Colonies; the Virginia Company gave headrights to settlers, and the Plymouth Company followed suit. The headright system was used in several colonies, including Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Most headrights were for 1 to 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land, and were granted to those who were willing to cross the Atlantic and help populate the colonies. Headrights were granted to anyone who would pay for the transportation costs of an indentured laborer. These land grants consisted of 50 acres (0.20 km2) for someone newly moving to the area and 100 acres (0.40 km2) for people previously living in the area. By ensuring the landowning masters had legal ownership of all land acquired, the indentured laborers after their indenture period had passed had little opportunity to procure their own land. This kept a large portion of the citizens of the Thirteen Colonies poor and led to tensions between the laborers and the landowners.	William Collyer
156	Moved to Davies Co., Missouri	William Collyer
157	William Collier was a soldier in the Union army and was killed in battle.	William Collyer
158	She was the daughter of Colonel A.S. Colyar and Agnes Erskin Colyar. On June 25, 1879 as Berta Colyar, she married B.[Barney] C. Scott at Davidson County, Tennessee. He died in January 1888 at Birmingham, Alabama. She was the mother of three children as per the 1900 Census for Washington, District of Columbia where she is listed as Married with three children born and three living: Agnes Scott born June 1880 in Tennessee who married Herbert Yost of Greenwich, Connecticut; William W. Scott born December 1883 in Tennessee; and Bernardine C. Scott born February 1887 in Alabama who married James B. Robinson in 1908. On April 30, 1889 as Berta C. Scott, she married [Dr.] Edward W. Morris at Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. On September 13, 1897 Mrs. Alberta Colyar-Morris was appointed Assistant Librarian in the new Congressional Library at a salary of $900 per annum. On the 1900 Census for Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, the marital status of Dr. Morris was Single.	Alberta Colyar
159	From website of Jean Colyer Grumbling: this Power of Attorney of son Alexander Colyar (son of William) which states that William Colyar and wife Nancy may have been living in Pulaski County Kentucky at the date of their death : Power of Attorney dated February 26, 1839 reads as follows: Know all men by thesse present that I, alexander Colyear of the County of Franklin and State of Tennessee hereby nominate, constitue and appoint my son, George T. Colyer of said county and state, my true and lawfull Attorney in fact for me and in my name to do and attend to all business I have any interest in in the state of Kentucky and more particularly to ask for, receive from and receipt for all money coming to me from the estate of my deceased Father, William Colyear late of the County of Pulaski and state of Kentucky or from the estate of my deceased mother, Nancy Colyear of said county and state and my said Attorney is also hereby authorized to bring suit or suits as he may think proper for the recovery of the same or to compromise the same in such way as he may think best and to give such receipts in my name as may be necessary hereby satisfying and confirming all the acts of my said Attorney may do in pursuance of this poser the same as if I was present and done the same myself. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February 1839. Alexander Colyear (his mark) ? State of Tennessee Franklin County I, John R. Paterick(?)an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforsaid hereby certify that Alexander Colyear personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the within power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February, 1839. John R. Patrick Justice of the Peace State of Tennessee Franklin County I, William W. Brazelton, clerk of the County Court of said County certify that John R. Patrick is and was at the time of making the above (unreadable) an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, legally qualified as such and entitled to (unreadable) and credit in all of his official acts. In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office, the 26th day of February, A.D.1839 William W. Brazelton, Clerk State of Tennessee Franklin County I, Wallis Estill (?) Jr., chariman and presiding magistrate of the county court of said county certify that William W. Brazelton whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is and was Clerk of said county of the time of signing the same and that his attestation is in due form of Law and sealed with the county seal. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February A.D. 1839. W. Estill Jr. Chairman of Franklin County Court (followed by another certification by Will Fawcett! Copy of Power of Attorney, now on file with Jean Colyer Grumbling.POA located in Book 10, Page 147. "Tennessee" by Moore, pg. 102	Alexander Colyar
160	In 2026, a mystery where Alexander and his wife Katherine are buried. They both died 1852-1856. Their son, George T. Colyar died in Mexican War and was brought back and buried in Winchester City Cemetery with marker appearing to be arranged by his lawyer brother Arthur St. Clair Colyar, since marker is very similar to those of A.S. Colyar's small children in same cemetery. A daughter of Alexander and sister to A.S. Colyar, Caroline Colyar, is also buried in Winchester cemetery in 1859. Have not been able to locate Alexander in same cemetery nor any other. His land was at current day David Crockett Hwy rt 64 and McClures Cemetery Rd. But, not grave found in that area.	Alexander Colyar
161	Selected Papers From The 1989 And 1990 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences NPS Logo The Social World of Middle Tennessee, 1780-1840 David C. Hsiung University of Michigan "The combination of fertile land and population growth led to prodigious agricultural development, which was commented upon by travelers and residents alike. Anne Newport Royall passed through the Nashville region in 1817. "[I]t is an open plain of uninterrupted good land; and the farmers raise corn, tobacco and pumpkins in great abundance. They rear great numbers of hogs and horses, and have a great many distilleries in operation. In this way they convert their surplus produce into cash." [15] Emigrants to the area, even as late as 1829, were not disappointed with their situation. "I have every fine prospect of a crop," wrote Alex Colyar from Franklin County, south of Nashville, "and I do believe that there is a better incouragement here for a farmer to bee indoustrous than any place I ever saw[.] [P]roduce sels here for cash[;] there is great deal of cotton raised her... [W]e are verry well satisfied with our move." [16]" 16. Alex Colyar to James Sevier, 30 June 1829, in Washington County Court Records, Box 75:2 "Circuit Court 1820 Civil/Criminal," Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.	Alexander Colyar
162	The Nashville Banner 10/11/1925 reports on A.S. Colyar, that his father first moved from east TN to Hillsborough community of current day Coffee County and rented a farm. A couple years later, he moved to the Stone Fort property of Daniel McLean which is now the area of the Old Stone Fort part in Manchester TN.	Alexander Colyar
163	According to : Notable men of Tennessee: Personal and genealogical, with portratis, Volume 1 edited by John Allison page 64, He was a prominent member of the Nashville Methodist Episcopal Church.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
164	Concerning the lawyer who schooled Arthur St. Clair Colyar to become a lawyer in Winchester TN, Col Micah Taul: Micah Taul (May 14, 1785 - May 27, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, grandfather of Taul Bradford. Born in Bladensburg, Maryland, Taul moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787. He attended private school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Monticello, Kentucky. He served as clerk of Wayne County Courts in 1801. He served as a colonel of Wayne County Volunteers in the War of 1812. Taul was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth U.S. Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1816. He resumed the practice of law. He moved to Winchester, Tennessee, in 1826 and continued the practice of law. He moved to Mardisville, Alabama, in 1846 and engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death there on May 27, 1850. He was interred on his plantation at Mardisville. It if of interest to note that Mr. Taul started in Monticello Ky so near the place and time that Col Arthur St. Clair Colyar's uncle, John Colyer was settling very close on the banks of the Cumberland River in current Somerset Ky. Did Micah Taul know John Colyer in Somerset before moving to Winchester TN and schooling John Colyer's nephew ?	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
165	During years of Arthur Colyar's time organizing and working with Tenneessee Coal Iron and Railroad, he recruited a fellow member of the confederate congress in the post war period to be President of TCI. This was a fellow named James Cartwright Warner. This Mr. Warner had moved to Nashville pennyless from Chattanooga as a result of the Civil War devastation. After working at TCI he continued on in mining interests and became quite wealthy. Mr. Warner had a son named Percy Warner, who continued in his father's steps as a mine and Iron works venturer and at his death, his children donated 1000 acres in Nashville to form Percy Warner park and Edwin Warner Park. (Source TN state library archives : Warner-Cartwright-Phillips Genealogical collection 1791-2016) TN state archives WHITE, MARGARET (WARNER) (1889-1981) PAPERS, CA. 1777-1962 in discussing James Cartwright Warner lays out: 1868-1875 Became Secretary and later General Manager of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company of which Arthur St. Clair Colyar was president. Iron industry made large advances under his management, new furnaces were built and other bought. The Chattanooga and Sewanee furnace at Cowan and those at Ensley, Alabama, were built and also the Southern States Coal, Iron, and Land Company; the Pratt Mines; the Alice Furnace; the DeBardelaben Coal and Iron Company; and the Cahaba Coal Company 1876-1885 President of the Tennessee Manufacturing Company. He continued throughout this period to increase the number if iron furnaces and other businesses 1882-1885 President of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. Directors were Nat Baxter, Jr., Samuel J. Keath, John P. White, John P. Williams,A.S. Colyar, Thomas Steger, and George A. Washington	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
166	https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/arthur-st-clair-colyar/ Arthur S. Colyar, attorney, political leader, newspaper editor, and industrialist, was born in Jonesborough, one of thirteen children of Alexander and Katherine Sevier Sherrill Colyar. Colyar received his education in the Washington County common schools, and in 1828 he moved with his parents to Franklin County. He was first employed as a teacher and later read law before his admission to the bar at Winchester in 1846. Politically, Colyar supported the Whigs in a traditionally Democratic stronghold. By 1860 he owned approximately thirty slaves and was a member of the Constitutional Union Party. Colyar opposed secession until Tennessee joined the Confederacy in 1861. In October 1861, while campaigning for a seat in the First Confederate Congress, Colyar contracted pneumonia. He recuperated and practiced law in Winchester until 1863. One anecdote holds that he defended a Unionist unlawfully jailed by Confederate authorities at the risk of his own life. He left Winchester soon after the abortive Confederate General Assembly met there, following the Tullahoma offensive by General W. S. Rosecrans in June 1863. In November 1863 Colyar was elected to the Confederate Congress and served from May 1864 until March 18, 1865. Although he supported direct taxation, the agricultural tax-in-kind, and taxes on corporate profits, he opposed economic controls, a stance he repudiated after the war. He opposed the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Colyar recognized the wisdom of opening peace talks and refused to support a motion to banish Senator Henry S. Foote for undertaking peace negotiations in early 1865. At the end of the war Colyar received a quick presidential pardon in September 1865. Thereafter, he lived in Nashville, where he returned to his law practice, engaged in state politics, and became involved in a variety of political and industrial matters. On three occasions Colyar ran unsuccessfully for governor on an independent ticket: in 1870 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination of the Conservatives and Democrats; in 1871 he allied with the Reunion and Reform Association; and in 1872 abandoned that organization and ran as an independent before retiring from the election in favor of John C. Brown. In 1876 he was one of the organizers of the Greenback Party, a delegate to that party's national convention, and an unsuccessful candidate for the general assembly. He was elected as an independent to represent Davidson County for the first and extra sessions of the 1877 legislature. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. His political activities always were associated with his diverse business interests in industry, mining, and commerce. Colyar's interest in coal mining and the iron furnace industry began in 1858, when he purchased the Old Sewanee Mining Company, which became the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company after the war, and later developed into Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company, one of the region's most important firms. Colyar sold ownership interest in 1881, but his interest in the company remained substantial. In 1882 he joined with Joseph B. Killebrew and others to organize the Rockdale Company and the Rock City Real Estate Company to acquire and develop mineral rights in Maury County. He also had interests in Rising Fawn Furnace, the Chattanooga Furnace, and Soddy coal mines. In 1881 he purchased controlling ownership of the Nashville American, which he edited and published until 1884. A New South proponent, Colyar encouraged industrial development through the promotion of northern capital, agricultural diversification, and foreign immigration. As vice-president of Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company, he avidly supported the state program of convict leasing, which supplied convict labor to replace free miners. In 1885 the Nashville Banner exposed Colyar's involvement in the convict lease system. A legislative investigation and a libel suit resulted. Colyar successfully thwarted an early penal reform movement and escaped censure. Colyar's interests were varied. He was involved in the building of the University of the South at Sewanee in the postwar years. In 1904 he published the two-volume Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. At an unknown date Colyar married Agnes Erskine Estill of Winchester; they were the parents of eleven children. Two years after the 1886 death of his first wife, Colyar married Mrs. Mary McGuire of Louisville, Kentucky. Colyar died in Nashville in 1907 and is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
167	Sewanee Tennessee History: facebook page 09/25/17: Arthur St. Clair "A.S." Colyar was a lawyer and a resident of Winchester, Tennessee. He was also the son-in-law of Dr. Wallace Estill. He helped secure Sewanee as the site for the University of the South. He became the owner of the Sewanee Mining Company after the Civil War. There was a stipulation made by the Mining Company that if the school was not opened within 10 years, the Sewanee Mining Company's land would be forfeited back to the Mining Company. Arthur wrote in a letter that "The ten years had almost elapsed and the title to the property would revert if the school was not opened. Major George R. Fairbanks of Florida had located here in the meantime, and build the famous log house known as "Rebel's Rest". A few days before the ten years elapsed, he assembled a few mountain boys and formally opened this school, and thereby held the title of the property." Arthur sent his letter to the University of the South in 1907 for their 50th year celebration of the laying of the cornerstone. It was also known as the the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the University of the South.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
168	[ColyerV2.FTW] Subject moved with parents to Franklin County, c.1828; after leaving father?s farm From the Procedings of the Bar Association of Tennessee. REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS,? I-Ion. Foster V. Brown, President: The Special Committee appointed to draft memorials of the members who have died since the former meeting, to be inserted in the published pro-ccedings of the Tennessee Bar Association, beg leave to submit the following : ARTHUR ST, CLAIR COLYAR. ? Col. Arthur St. Clair Colyar was born in a dwelling sit-uated on the banks of the historic Nolachucky River, in Washington County, seven miles west of Jonesboro, June 23, 1818, and died at Nashville, December 13, 1907. His long life, therefore, extended over a period of more than 89 years. During this lapse of time, beginning almost with the infancy of the country, what a kaleidescope of change passed before his discerning eyes ! When he was about nine years old his father, Alexander Colyar, removed to Hillsboro in what is now Franklin County, -and, as the father was a farmer, Arthur began industrial life as a plow boy, and received only such education as could be had in a pioneer country. -At the age of ?22 he entered the office of Col. Micah Taul, of Winchester, as a law student. In 1846 he obtained his license and formed a partnership with W. P. Hickerson, at Winchester. Here he soon made a reputation which encouraged him to venture into wider fields ; he removed in a few years to Winchester, and formed a partnership with his kinsman, A. S. Marks, who was afterwards Governor, and with John Frizzell, who afterward became a prominent man. Col. Colyar?s public spirit led -him into active politics, State and National. He was a member of the? national convention in 1860, which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice-President respectively, on ?the Whig ticket, and made an active canvass in favor of the ticket in the hope of saving the Union. He opposed secession, but at the parting of the ways . he cast his destiny with the South. He was elected to the Confederate Congress, in which he served with ?the same zealand energy that always characterized the man. After the Civil \Var he settled at Nashville and practiced law, at one time in partnership with Henry S. Foote, and at other times alone, or in association with various other attorneys. * A fen- years after the close of the war he came connected as stockholder, director and president, of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Railroad Company. afterward the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. He was not especially gifted as a business man, but by his efforts he saved the company from wreck, and so inspired the financial world with his confidence in the industry that it was placed on .he way to a success that has finally brought it to a very high place among the industries of the country. About this time he was very aggressive in his fight against a ring rule in the city of Nashville, which resulted in the city being placed in the hands of a receiver and in its complete relief from its distressing condition. In 1881 he took charge-of the American, a leading paper throughdut the State. His last important work was of a historic and ?literary character, and in this, as a fitting climax to his laborious and zealous life, he left behind him the fruit of years of painstaking labor. Nothing that he ever did was perhaps more pleasing and gratifying to him than his authorship of the "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson", which is truly a monument to his industry in his old age. Col. Colyar was always prominent as a lawver especially as an advocate, being eloquent, strong in debate, and forceful in pursuit of what was right. He was a participant in many of the most important suits in both State and Federal Courts. Among other important cases, he represented the State in the United States Supreme Court in the boundary line case between Virginia and Tennessee, which he won in 1893. One of Col. Colyar?s most pronounced characteristics was his strong and enthusiastic interest in everything pertaining to public well-being and moral welfare. He was in deep sympathy with everything tending to the material prosperity of the country, and the intellectual, moral and religions culture of society, and was found among the active promoters of schools, colleges and churches, and was an ardent advocate of the establishment and construction of railroads,manufactories, mines and commercial and financial enterprises. He was an uncompromising? friend of law and order, sobriety and purity -in individuals and government. He was a total abstainer and was the author of the Four Mile Law, one of the: most unique and successful bits of legislation that the country has known. His courage was almost unlimited. Like all positive characters he occasionally fell into mistakes of judgment, and was sometimes criticised even when he was in the right. As might be expected of such an one, he sacrificed himself, so far as public office was concerned, and died a poor man, being in active practice almost to the end of his days. The objects and purposes of the Bar Association fell naturally in line with Col. - Colyar?s instincts and principles, for whatever organization tended or purposed to cultivate right dealing, right thinking and professional ethics could not fail to meet with his warm and enthusiastic sympathy and support To the end of his life these things were his guilding stars. [Collierj.ftw] Arthur St. Clair Colyar came from a poor family which eventually moved to Franklin co., Tennessee. He was self-educated and studied law. He maintained a law office in Nashville but did not live in that city until 1866. (His son, John B. Colyar, wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee). A Whig, he became a Constitutional Unionist and opposed immediate secession. In 1863, he risked his life by defending Tennessee Unionists who had been unlawfully arrested. He was elected to the second House in May, 1864. He served on the Ways and Means Committee, generally supported the administration, and favored extending the tax-in-kind. He was a staunch opponent of any special priveliges for Southern corporations. Along with John B. Baldwin of Virginia, he tried to pressure Congress into negotiations with the North even before the Hampton Roads meeting. After the war, Colyar became an important Democratic party leader but lost the race for governor in 1878. Colyar was an active lawyer who wrote for the Confederate Veteran. He also reorganized the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company and became its president. He was considered a conservative because of his 1867 appeal to allow the freedman the vote. From 1881 to 1884, he edited the Nashville American. He also wrote the Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. He died in Nashville December 13, 1907. from Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy Jon L. Wakelyn Westport, CT 1977 Arthur St. Clair Colyar came from a poor family which eventually moved to Franklin, Tennessee. He was self-educated and studied law. He maintained a law office in Nashville but did not live in that city until 1866. (His son, John B. Colyar, wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee). A Whig, he became a Constitutional Unionist and opposed immediate secession. In 1863, he risked his life by defending Tennessee Unionists who had been unlawfully arrested. He was elected to the second House in May, 1864. He served on the Ways and Means Committee, generally supported the administration, and favored extending the tax-in-kind. He was a staunch opponent of any special priveliges for Southern corporations. Along with John B. Baldwin of Virginia, he tried to pressure Congress into negotiations with the North even before the Hampton Roads meeting. After the war, Colyar became an important Democratic party leader but lost the race for governor in 1878. Colyar was an active lawyer who wrote for the Confederate Veteran. He also reorganized the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company and became its president. He was considered a conservative because of his 1867 appeal to allow the freedman the vote. From 1881 to 1884, he edited the Nashville American. He also wrote the Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. He died in Nashville December 13, 1907. from Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy by Jon L. Wakelyn, Westport, CT 1977 He moved with parents to Franklin County, c.1828; after leaving father?s farm From the Procedings of the Bar Association of Tennessee. REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS,? Hon. Foster V. Brown, President: The Special Committee appointed to draft memorials of the members who have died since the former meet.ing, to be inserted in the published proceedings of the Tennessee Bar Association, beg leave to submit the following : ARTHUR ST, CLAIR COLYAR. Col. Arthur St. Clair Colyar was born in a dwelling situated on the banks of the historic Nolachucky River, in Washington County, seven miles west of Jonesboro, June 23, 1815, and died at Nashville, December 13, 1907. His long life, therefore, extended over a period of more than 89 years. During this lapse of time, beginning almost with the infancy of the country, what a kaleidescope of change passed before his discerning eyes ! When he was about nine years old his father, Alexander Colyar, ?removed to Hillsboro in what is now Franklin County, -and, as the father was a farmer, Arthur began industrial life as a plow boy, and received onlysuch education as could be had in a pioneer country. -At the age of ?22 he entered the office of Col. Micah Taul, of Winchester, as a law student. In 1846 he obtained his license and formed a partnership with W. P. Hickerson, at Winchester. Here he soon made a reputation which encouraged him to venture into wider fields ; he removed in a few years to Winchester, and formed a partnership with his kinsman, A. S. Marks, who was afterwards Governor, and with John Frizzell, who afterward became a prominent man. Col. Colyar?s public spirit led -him into active politics, State and National. He was a member of the? national convention in 1860, which nominated Bell and Everett for President and Vice-President respectively, on ?the Whig ticket, and made an active canvass in favor of the ticket in the hope of saving the Union. He opposed secession, but at the parting of the ways . he cast his destiny with the South. He was elected to the Confederate Congress, in which he served with ?the same zealand energy that always characterized the man. After the Civil \Var he settled at Nashville and practiced law, at one time in partnership with Henry S. Foote, and at other times alone, or in association with various other attorneys. * A fen- years after the close of the war he came connected as stockholder, director and president, of the Tennessee Coal and Railroad Railroad Company. afterward the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. He was not especially gifted as a business man, but by his efforts he saved the company from wreck, and so inspired the financial world with his confidence in the industry that it was placed on .he way to a success that has finally brought it to a very high place among the industries of the country. About this time he was very aggressive in his fight against a ring rule in the city of Nashville, which resulted in the city being placed in the hands of a receiver and in its complete relief from its distressing condition. In 1881 he took charge-of the American, a leading paper throughdut the State. His last important work was of a historic and ?literary character, and in this, as a fitting climax to his laborious and zealous life, he left behind him the fruit of years of painstaking labor. Nothing that he ever did was perhaps more pleasing and gratifying to him than his authorship of the "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson", which is truly a monument to his industry in his old age. Col. Colyar was always prominent as a lawyer especially as an advocate, being eloquent, strong in debate, and forceful in pursuit of what was right. He was a participant in many of the most important suits in both State and Federal Courts. Among other important cases, he represented the State in the United States Supreme Court in the boundary line case between Virginia and Tennessee, which he won in 1893. One of Col. Colyar?s most pronounced characteristics was his strong and enthusiastic interest in everything pertaining to public well-being and moral welfare. He was in deep sympathy with everything tending to the material prosperity of the country, and the intellectual, moral and religions culture of society, and was found among the active promoters of schools, colleges and churches, and was an ardent advocate of the establishment and construction of railroads,manufactories, mines and commercial and financial enterprises. He was an uncompromising? friend of law and order, sobriety and purity -in individuals and government. He was a total abstainer and was the author of the Four Mile Law, one of the: most unique and successful bits of legislation that the country has known. His courage was almost unlimited. Like all posi-tive characters he occasionally fell into mistakes of judgment, and was sometimes criticised even when he was in the right. As might be expected of such an one, he sacrificed himself, so far as public office was concerned, and died a poor man, being in active practice almost to the end of his days. The objects and purposes of the Bar Association fell naturally in line with Col. - Colyar?s instincts and principles, for whatever organization tended or purposed to cultivate right dealing, right thinking and professional ethics could not fail to meet with his warm and enthusiastic sympathy and support To the end of his life these things were his guilding stars. [Colyer.FTW] Subject moved with parents to Franklin County, c.1828; after leaving father?s farm Mr. A.S Colyar book entitled "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson" on page 27, Vol I, says that he was the great-grandson of Samuel Sherill.	Arthur St. Clair Colyar
169	We do not know who this Bluford Colyer(Colyar, Coliar) is for sure. We know from a Mt. Vernon KY newspaper article in 1911 written by a great-grandson of Charles Colyar who settled in Pulaski County who was a brother to William, that this Charles Colyar(Colyer) who settled on Brush creek at the county line of Rockcastle County, had 6 brothers who were all involved in the Revolution. The artcle written by a Mr. Chestnut, who was a grandson of state legislator Charles Colyer. The legislator was the son of older Charles Colyer. So a total of 7 Colyar(Colyer) brothers. We have identifed with a fair amount of evidence 5 of the brothers from Henry County VA: John, William, Charles, Stephen(a guess based on Jonesboro land records and use of name in later generations), Richard. The Henry County VA oath of allegience records also show a Thomas "Collier" that signed with other named brothers, but does not include Bluford. I have to date been unable to find other documents on Thomas. The Thomas on this site under John Collier of 1707 is not believed to be related to the Henry County VA Colyar's. The son of John 1707 Thomas died in Charlotte County VA. So, there are two missing Colyar brothers. One could be a Thomas who signed Henry County oath of allegiance. However, on the 1810 u.s. census, a "Buford" Coliar shows up next to John Coliar on the Cumberland River. We have shown that this John Colier was John Colyer born 1781. This Colyar(Colyer, Coliar) family on this site has been shown to repeat use of names with great duplicity. Each brother named children for other brothers etc. We know that John Colyer born 1781 named a child named Bluford. The 1810 Pulaski County KY property tax records shows a "Bluford" Colyer. The 1810 census record shows this Bluford to be of about the same age as John Colyer born 1781. Therefore, it could be either a brother to John or a cousin. If a brother, he must have died or disappeared before father William Colyar dies, since there is no mention of him in estate records or subsequent deeds transferring inherited land of William Colyar. I believe based on evidence that the U.S. 1810 census mistakenly called "Bluford" by name of "Buford". Further, to be on the 1810 records, it would NOT be the Bluford who was son of John Colyer born 1781. Therefore the educated guess is that this Bluford Colyer on 1810 Pulaski County KY property tax records was a brother to John Colyer born 1781 or a cousin to John Colyer of 1781. This Bluford Colyar only shows up on 1810 Pulaski County Records. Search of years before and after have not located a Bluford, whereas John Colyer does appears before and after.	Bluford Colyar
170	This husband and wife are cousins, Marcus Lashbrook’s mother was Ursula Colyar sister to Alexander Colyar.	Charity Colyar
171	21 S.W. 659 COLYAR et al. v. SAX et al. DUNCAN et al. v. SAME. Supreme Court of Tennessee. February 7, 1893. Appeal from chancery court, Grundy county; McConnell, Chancellor. Bill in equity by E. F. Colyar and others against Max Sax, trustee, and others, and a bill by W. M. Duncan and others against the same defendants. The two causes were consolidated, and heard on pleadings and proofs. From the decree entered all parties appeal. Reversed. J. H. Holman, for E. F. Colyar and others. Vertrees & Vertrees, for Duncan and others. Brown & Spears, for Spears. N. Cohn, for Sax and others. Steger, Washington & Jackson, for W. D. Spears. John A. Pitts and W. C. Shelton, for A. S. Colyar. J. B. Fergusson, guardian ad litem. J. C. Bradford, for Fall and others. WILKES, J. The first-named bill was filed to cancel certain deeds made by E. F. Colyar to Max Sax, trustee, and to set up a resulting trust in the lands conveyed in E. F. Colyar. The second bill was filed to sell the same lands for partition, to fix the rights of parties therein, and divide the proceeds. The chancellor, Hon. T. M. McConnell, fixed the rights of the parties, by decree, and ordered a sale of the lands. There was no dissatisfaction with, or appeal from, the decree for sale, but none of the several parties interested were satisfied with the decree fixing their rights inter sese, and all have appealed and assigned errors, which raise simply the question as to the proper distribution of the proceeds of the lands, when they shall be sold. The facts, so far as necessary to be stated, are found to be as follows: About 1882, E. F. Colyar, who resided at Tracy City, Grundy county, conceived the idea of buying up a large number of tracts of mineral lands, with a view of consolidating them into one body, and enlisting capitalists in their development. Soon after he began operations, he associated with him E. O. Nathurst and W. D. and Page 660 N. B. Spears; the first named being very familiar with the mineral wealth of the region, and the two latter being attorneys familiar with the titles of the lands in that section. A. S. Colyar soon became interested, and furnished some money to be used in the purchase of the lands, $1,500 of which he obtained from Richardson, Fall, and Longhmiller, upon an agreement with said A. S. Colyar that, to the extent of the money furnished, they were to have an interest in the lands. Still the parties could not command the necessary funds to carry out their designs, and on 21st day of June, 1884, Benton and John McMillan accepted a written proposal from E. F. Colyar and E. O. Nathurst to go into the enterprise upon terms that they were to furnish not exceeding $20,000 to pay for the...	Elbert Franklin Sevier Colyar
172	Killed in the mexican war per Tennessean Newspaper 12/13/1907 From Goodspeeds history of Franklin County, TN "George T. Colyar’s Company E. of the Third Regiment,Tennessec Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. B. F. Cheathrun. This company, consisting of 115 men, rank and file, left Winchester in September, 1847. and was mustered into the United States service near Nashville ahout October 10, 1847, and left for Mexico in the same month. Capt. Colyar died January 8, 1848, in the city of Mexico. His remains were sent to his’home in Winchester." His brother Arthur St. Clair was sent to obtain his remains from south. George Thompson Colyar was given power of attorney by his father, Alexander Colyar, in 1839 in Somerset , Pulaski county Kentucky (see actual document in pdf section of website) to get any inheritance due Alexander from his parents' estate.	George Thompson Colyar
173	[Colyer.FTW] [Collierj.ftw] Wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee. [ColyerV2.FTW] [Collierj.ftw] Wrote A Boy's Opinion of General Lee. How the president of Washington College appeared to a shy young freshman from Tennessee is told by John B. Colyar. Appears on page 477 of The Robert E. Lee Reader by Stanley F. Horn Impressions as a student at Washington College Lexington " The morning after we reached Lexington we repaired to the office of General Lee for the purpose of matriculation and receiving instructions as to the duties devolving upon us as students. I entered the office with reerential awe, expecting to see the great warrior whose fame then encircled the civilized globe as I had pictured him in my own imagination. General Lee was alone, looking over a paper. He arose when we entered and received with a quiet, gentlemenly dignity that was so natural and easy and kind that the feeling of awe left me at the threshold of his door. General Lee had but one manner in his intercourse with men. It was the same as to the peasant as to the prince, and the student was received with the easy courtliness that would have bestowed on the greatest imperial dignitary of Europe. When we had registered, my brother asked the General for a copy of his rules. General Lee said, "young gentleman, we have no printed rules. We have but one rule here and it is that every student must be a gentleman." I did not until after years fully realize the comprehensiveness of his remark and how completely it covered every essential rule that should govern the conduct and intercourse of men." ...........	John B. Colyar
174	http://www2.volstate.edu/cbucy/History%202030/suffrage.htm Lulu Colyar Reese, Memphis (1860-19 ) Lulu Colyar Reese had her first introduction into the political world at the age of seventeen, when she joined other Nashville women in an appearance before the Tennessee General Assembly to secure the property of Andrew Jackson, the Hermitage, for the state. The effort was successful and the Ladies Hermitage Association was founded. After her marriage to Isaac B. Reese, she had regular meetings and gatherings in their home to bring together society leaders, Vanderbilt professors, and other thinkers of the city for conversation and interaction. As many as 300 persons attended these gatherings which were described as a “Parisian salon.” When the Reese family moved to Paducah, Kentucky, she founded a similar group there. In 1900, the Reese family moved to Memphis where she became active in the Federation of Women’s Clubs as president of the Nineteenth Century Club. She used her experience in the women’s clubs of Memphis to become active in the political problems of her day and worked for suffrage. She led the fight for women on the Memphis City Board of Education and was one of the first two women elected to the Board, running for the office on the Non-Partisan ticket. While on the school board, she fought for free textbooks and anti-child labor laws. Lulu Reese was in Nashville at the Hermitage Hotel in August, 1920 when the 19th amendment was passed. She was active in the National American Woman Suffrage Association as well as the National Women’s Party.	Lula Colyar
175	[Colyer.FTW] Two Daughters of Tennessee By GILBERT R. ADKINS Franklin County Historical MARTHA COLYAR: MRS. ROSEBORO' It was natural that Martha Clarissa Colyar should regard Franklin County - a refuge in time of trouble. She was born here. the twelfth of thirteen children. on April 20.1834, while her parents were temporarily living in a portion of Franklin County that is now in Coffee County. Because she thought herself so excellently educated she maintained that instruction in Tennessee was the beat in the country, and she was intensely fond of Winchester and its schools all her life. Her undated diploma from the Winchester Female Academy1 signed by Jno. G. Biddle. J.W. Tyler. P.S. Decherd. and F.A. Foughmiller. was a treasured keepsake.(2) Samuel Reed Roseboro, who prepared for the ministry at college in Lebanon. was born in Lincoln County. son of John Alexander Roseboro (3) The family was one of obvious substance, generosity, and culture It was in Winchester that Samuel saw Martha Colyar for the first time. when they passed on a sidewalk. True to his Presbyterian background. Samuel claimed he was not swayed by Martha's attractively fussy clothes, sapphire blue eyes. or faint violet perfume: it was the look on her face, "as if she had just left off prayer." Later, when they became well acquainted, he asked her to share his manse In Selma, Alabama Martha objected on the ground that a devout Method let with an appetite for the fiction of Sir Welter Scott should not be the wife of a Presbyterian minister who drew the line at poetry of Pope and Shelley. The courtship nevertheless progressed toward wedding plans after settlement of a difference of opinion about the officiating clergy- _ 32 man's denomination. Miss Martha (Mattie) Colyar1 whose parents were dead, married Reed Roseboro' on January 8, 1857, near Winchester, In the humble surroundings of an unpainted country home on the aide of a hill. Martha was clutching a Scott novel as the couple left for a short journey down the Mississippi River. Reed and Mattie returned to live in Pulaski, Tennesee. Dr. Houston by request had omitted the word "obey" from their marriage ceremony,(4) and It was whispered among the women that Martha, "with that Colyar 1ook111 told her beat Winchester friend, Lou Murrell, that she would never accept a letter addressed to Mm. S. R. Roseboro'. She Insisted on her Identity as Mrs. Martha Colyar Roseboro', a radical position at the time.(5) Her husband signaled capitulation by buying his wife a eat of the Waverley novels. In those prewar years, Martha, an emancipationist, goaded her husband on what to say in his slavery sermons. He occasionally took a walk In order to get away from the barrage only to return four hours later and have Martha pick up at her monologue's breaking-off point. Reed and the Pulaski neighbors listened while Mat talked. She actually kept a blue notebook in which she recorded what he said he thought he had said on slavery from the pulpit. Martha Was successful In radicalizing her husband on the Issue, although he had presumably heard silmilar arguments from his seminary professor. Because of Martha's suasion, her husband consented to move to Missouri, and when war came, Martha refuged to Mattoon, Illinois, while the minister enlisted as chaplain on the Union side The Yankee enlistment resulted In his parents disowning him.(6) POSTWAR RNANCIAL STRAITS When the war w- over, Martha Colyar Roseboro fled a cramped Illinois hotel room and returned to family and friends in Tennessee. Her chaplain-husband was discharged from the United States Army on July 33 _ 34 12, 1865, and joined his wife in 8 round of visits to relatives The trip had to be brief because Mr. Roseboro had already been appointed pastor of a Congregational church in Macon, Missouri. Mrs. Roseboro, that fail, put down roots by purchasing a small Missouri farm with money earned during the war from teaching school, sewing, and working in a hotel at Mattoon, Illinois in part because of this investment, by the spring of 1868 the young family was financially distressed. and Martha made plans to return to Tennessee to consult her brother, for If he could not help personally he would at least advise her. "Arthur", she said, "has a genius about money." Foremost in Martha's mind was the hope that Arthur would help with her daughter's education. Martha had not received a letter from Arthur Colyar since her last visit, nor had she heard from her friends in Winchester. Whether in communication or not1 relatives have a way of sensing inopportune times for visits. Colonel Colyar was attempting to effect governmental reform in Nashville by openly striking the Alden ring1(7) and he well knew that public reaction to his entertaining a sister with abolitionist sympathies could be damaging. To get Martha out of Nashville he planned a sightseeing trip to his Sewanee Mine. From them he would urge that she visit relatives in Coffee County while he returned to Nashville In later life Martha's daughter, Viola1 described Tennessee as it appeared that day she and five relatives rode a train toward Cowan. Our part of Tennessee had escaped the worst of war's ravages All over the wide south the fallen walls of houses heaped around gaunt. Smokeless chimneys standing straight in desolate dignity made the land strange to the eyes. Strange one would think, to the very birds who were flying so busily in the sky: but here in middle Tennessee, many a man came back to a home little altered: the old roof still stood, and still sheltered his own people; his own fields lay about him, and it was a striking evidence of the metaphysical character of life that these accustomed and solid realities often but sharpened in men's souls the sense of ruinous revolution , and made the glowing sunlight glare the stranger in their eyes. By contrast, the same trip between Nashville and Cowan had Impressed Martha Roseboro as leading through an exhausted and poverty-stricken part of Tennessee; as she recalled it, innumerable signs of military conflict scarred the earth. In addition to observing the countryside, there was ample opportunity during the ride for Martha to register objection to her brothers hiring _ 35 convict labor in the Sewanee Mines. Arthur Colyar reacted with assumed cheer, pointed out that he had started operations at Moffat, Tracy City, and beyond1 in order to help the state, and that the business would soon be on a firmer basis. Recovery was underway from the twin setbacks of war and the outlay of almost two million dollars over a six-year period for railroad construction up Sewanee Mountain to Tracy, during which the company received no monetary return whatsoever. Colyar referred to his company railroad from Cowan as "that darling line of track," and remarked that "already them are summer boarders living up on that high perch of ours." At Cowan there was a primitive ticket office. Colyar led his party peg it with a wave to his employee, the structure's lone occupant, and followed a sooty trainman down the tracks, the rest of the party walking with difficulty over the rough. At last they entered a queer little car that nevertheless had cushioned mats. There was a tin cooler marked "liquid ice water" and a chained, nickel-plated cup "all in grimy completeness." A mountaineer in blue homespun and strew hat who had been down into the valley was mated next to an old woman in a bonnet. In whispers Colonel Colyar told his niece a story about another old mountaineer who thought them was a devil inside the company's train engine, and it was the devil that made the train climb. Almost immediately we found ourselves ascending the mountain --our little car clinging to a long empty coal train that. in its turn. fast to the puffing. straining locomotive as far before and above us. it climbed a zigzag track up '. mountainside. The sight was a novel one and to those Of our number who repeatedly had crossed me Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. giving, as if felt a startlingly distinct Impression of climbing. The trip into the mines never took place. Tracy City had received a telegraphic message that Colonel Colyar was needed in Nashville. He departed while his wife, Agnes,(1O) and relatives scattered to Coffee County. Martha returned to penury in Missouri. A second daughter born to her did not survive infancy.	Martha Clarissa Colyar
176	Abstracts of Fauquier County Virginia: wills, inventories, and accounts 1759-1800 by John Gott copyright 1972-1976 Tn State Library F232.F3 G6 Richard Colyer paid estate of Henry Munzey Sept 23, 1765	Richard Colyar
177	based on review of 1780s personal property tax records of Henry County VA, there are two Richard Collier's. Therefore it is concluded that there is a Richard Collier(Colyar) Sr and a Richard Collier(Colyar)Jr. The Richard Collier Jr would be born about 1750.	Richard Colyar
178	courtesy of https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I147011&tree=Tree1 COLYAR, WILLIAM, Prince George's Co., planter. 8 Aug, 1749 To son William, my lands that I possess, and he shall allow his mother her living on the land. William shall be free at 18 of age to have his possession of land, and shall not make any sale of same. If he shd. die without hrs., it shall fall to grand-son Richard; 1 pt. of land was taken out of a tract called by name "Dan," the other pt. of the land called "Stubb Hill, another of 50 A. called "Elders Delite," all as I leave at my decease to son William. To dau. Mary, 5 years rent of that land called 'Dann." To son Richard, 5 s. Wit: John Leech, Elener Leech, Francis Abston. The will is signed Wm. Colear; written in the probate paragraph as William Collyar. 27. 69 === no further probate records in Maryland pre 1776 === this is the only record i could find for Richard in Fauquier 1764-1766 Fauquier County, Virginia Minute Book; [Antient Press]; Page 51 Fauquier County Court 22nd of November 1764 - JOHN WRIGHT, Foreman, WILLIAM MILLER, JAMES MURRAY, PETER HILL, JUNR., GEORGE WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN BUTLER, JOHN SIERS, NEHEMIAH WOOD, JOSEPH inn. WILLIAM RUSSELL, WILLIAM OBANON, JOHN OBANON, JACOB RECTOR, JOHN RECTOR, THOMAS FURR, MANLEY SINGLETON, BUSHROD DOGGETT, GEORGE CROSBY, RICHARD LUTTREL and MICHAEL LUTRELL, were sworn a Grand Jury of Inquest for the body of this County, who having received their charge withdrew to consider of their Presentments, and after some time returned and presented THOMAS CUMMINS, RICHARD COLLIER, GEORGE TURNER, GEORGE ADAMS, GREGORY GLASCOCK, ISAAC ADAMS, CHARLES LITTLEJOHN, HENRY LITTLEJOHN JOHN WILLOUGHBY, GEORGE STACEY, JOHN SETTLE and THOMAS CONNOR all of Hamilton Parish for absenting themselves from their Parish Church within one month last past by the knowledge of two of us; Richard (nor any colliers) was in Hamilton Parish in 1751 (pre Fauquier formation	Richard Colyar
179	http://www.roanetn.com/Holland_early.htm A List of the Company of Militia Under the Command of Capt. Joseph Martin in PITTSYLVANIA CO.VA 1774 Joseph Martin, Captain; John Cunningham, Lieutenant, David Chadwell, Ensign, William Cox and John Turner, Sergeants, Robert Perryman, Clerk Benja Dillion, Carter Dillion, Henry Dillion, Edmd Lyne, Michael Barker, John Barker, Mordicai Hoard, Henry Bradbury, Robert Searcy, John Witt(en)?, John Stamps, WILLIAM HOLLAND, THOS HOLLAND, James Short, James Spencer, John Walker, Henry Tate, Nathl Tate, Edmond Graves, Joseph Baker, John Palphrey, Humphry Posey, John Noe Senr, John Barker, Joel Barker, Chars Barker, Josiah Cox, Prier Noe, James Godard, William Dotson, Alex Jarves, Wm. Collyer, Jos Laurence, Chas Foster, John Turner Geo Reaves, Daniel Smith, Josiah Turner, Wm Turner, Josh Byrd, Richd Baker, Wm Mullins Senr, William Mullins Junr, John Mullins, Ambrose Mullis, Wm Standly Sr, Wm Standly Jur, Richd Standly, John Standly, Saml Packwood, Baine Carter, Pleasant Duke, Charles Dunkan, Wm Reed, John Goin, Richd Colliar, William Bays The majority of information shown on these pages (other than individual contributors as noted), comes from the writings of Snyder E. Roberts, and his wife, Pauline Halburnt Roberts. The most frequently-quoted book is his Roots of Roane County, TN – 1792- , published in 1981. Also his first book, Roberts Families of Roane County, TN, published in 1969—now out of print. (Reprints of Roots available from Oliver Springs Historical Society) http://www.brinkfamily.net/tree/p49.htm The call had been directed in response to reports of British attempts to stir the Indians into active warfare against the western settlements of the Colonies. This campaign against the overhill Cherokees lasted a year and involved an extended overland trek as far west as what is now Knoxville, Tennessee. Armstead would have become knowledgeable of the Cumberland Gap and Tennessee Valley during this campaign. He served under the command of Capt James Lyon. No record of Capt Lyon's company has been found. Upon completing this campaign he joined the company of Joseph Martin (also of Pittsylvania county) in protecting the property of the Powell Valley settlers. Joseph Martin had just two years earlier attempted to start Martin's Station in the Powell Valley and had been driven out by hostile Indians. He had returned to Pittsylvania county and had been instrumental in the political campaigning to initiate the campaign against the Indians. He had left his associate John Redd in Powell Valley at Martin's station. Upon the arrival of the militia in the Holston Valley, John Redd became the sergeant major of Joseph Martin's company. Details of Martin's company actions in this campaign are available from the writings of John Redd and from the Draper Papers. Joseph Martin's orderly book from these campaigns is in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress. I provide some descriptions below to give the reader a sense for the 'action' of this campaign. [Source: The Gulf States Historical Magazine, Vol I, Sept 1902, page 141.] The opposing Indian forces were under the command of Chief Dragging Canoe. He retreated down the Tennessee rather than engage the 1,500 men under General Christian and subsequently established the Chickamaugua tribal settlement and continued in later years to oppose the white intrusion into Cherokee lands. As the Indians retreated before the militia several Indian villages were burned along the tributaries of the Tennessee River. Singled out was the village, which earlier that year, had burned a white captive alive. At one river crossing, believed to be the French Broad, the militia anticipating that the Indians would await the crossing and attack as they were in the water, Joseph Martin's company (30 men) was placed in the lead. Martin personally carried two of his ill militia across the river ford. Another 600 men were sent up river the evening before to ford the river and be prepared to attack the Indian positions. However the Indians had fled and the crossing was uneventful. As the crossing was made a tremendous uproar could be heard in a nearby wood and the militia thought that this was the Indians preparing to attack. Upon investigating it turned out to be a frightened heard of Eastern Buffalo. On another occasion two of Martin's militiamen played a practical joke on one who was exceptionally frightened of Indians. They led him away from his guard post one night with stories of a strayed horse. One of the men slipped away and discharged his weapon, the other fell as if struck dead, while the first rushed toward the unnerved man crying 'Indians!' As the two of them rushed toward the camp, the fallen trooper, rose from behind them and discharged his weapon, at which point the other conspirator fell as if dead, leaving the terrified picket to rush toward the camp alone to alert it to the 'Indian attack'. They had intended according to later testimony to stop him before he got to camp, but were unable to catch him in pursuit. The 'joke' was not amusing to Gen. Christian who had the two arrested. Martin arg ued for there release as they were good men, and eventually had to force their release at sword point. This act of insubordination damaged Martin's opportunities with the militia. General Christians order book contains the order prohibiting the firing of weapons at night which was issued in response to this incident. After the burning of the Indian Villages, the elderly chiefs of the Cherokee sued for peace and the Treaty of 1777 was signed at Long Island, Tennessee. This ceded all the northeastern lands of the Cherokee Indians to the United States. Joseph Martin was established as Indian commissioner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and moved to Long Island, TN the following year where he lived with his Indian wife, Nancy Ward half-sister of Dragging Canoe. During the latter part of 1777, Joseph Martin, John Redd and Armstead Anderson and 80 or so militiamen were stationed at Rye Cove to guard the Powell and Clinch Valleys against Indian raids. This was a small settlement on a plateau of the Allegany mountains. Enroute they were ambushed by Indians under Little Fellow, while proceeding single file along a steep hill. One of the company was wounded by 5 or 7 balls. Later another ambush killed another militiaman. Armstead mentions an attack that killed one of his fellow militiamen. This is potentially the same incident. It is interesting to compare John Redd's relating of these stories to Armstead's. Clearly the similarity substantiate Armstead's pension testimony http://www.kentuckykinfolkorganization.com/kenburksupdate.html 3/19/05 1783 deed mentions lines of Roland Horslee Birks on Goblingtown Creek 1785, he sold 100 @ to Richard Collear. ( Goblintown Cr. is in Patrick Co. today.) Above two parcels of land received by patent 1 Mar 1781 as recorded in Henry County Patents, Book D, p. 715. http://www.kentuckykinfolkorganization.com/kenburksupdate.html A look at Henry County records reveals, that the last mention of Rowland Horsely Birk and wife Sarah, is in 1785 when he sold 100 acres of land "where said Burke now lives" to Richard Collier - recorded 24 Mar 1785. Henry County became a county in 1777, formed from Pittsylvania County (formed from Halifax Co. 1767) so he could have been in Pittsylvania and just the county name changed.	Richard Colyar
180	See Charles Colyer born 1757, pension document stating he was born in Fauquier County VA.	Richard Colyar
181	The Callaway family genealogy work by Mrs. A.E. Hart 1925 on this site, states that "Richard Collier, of Henry County VA, who i 1776 was paid for bacon furnished the army" citing Land Grants, Index Patents, From Virginia Colonial Militia.	Richard Colyar
182	I have conjectured that this Stephen S Colyar(Colyer) is a brother to William Colyar, like Richard Colyar. However, given the middle initial of "S", it is also possible that this Stephen's middle name was St. Clair, which would indicate him being a son of William Colyar who was born 1754.	Stephen S. Colyar
183	This husband and wife are cousins. James Lashbrook?s mother was Ursula Colyar sister to Alexander Colyar	Susan Colyar
184	The Newrivernotes.com shows an extract of the 1782 personal property tax records for Washington County in Col. Arthur Campbell's precinct and shows a William 'Coller' (which I suspect is really Collier) with 1 tithe and 5 horses	William Colyar
185	Washington cty TN deeds book 18 PG 10 (per notes of Plano Tx researcher given to Janis Ragar) shows transfer by William Colyar jr 1/12/1826 of Negro boy named Issac about 11-12 years old to Joseph Hunter. Same source refers to Deed BK 18 page 303 wherein William Colyer sells a negro girl about 12 years old named Hannah to Thomas j. Brown.	William Colyar
186	Another possible father of William Colyar 1754 is William Colyar 1732 from Montgomery County MD. However, This William a son of a William, had another son named Richard that is the likely candidate as being father of William. It appears that this Richard, migrated to Pittsylvania County VA in 1766 and was there until about 1784. It is also noteworthy that this Richard also had an apparent son named Richard which ties into the Willliam Colyar grandson as stated in his will below.: http://fzsaunders.com/allison.html Thomas ALLISON and Barbara BURCH had children: 1. Charles ALLISON15 b. ca. 1720;15 m. Barbara19 MOORE;17 living 179541 2. John ALLISON20 m. Elizabeth;21 died between 12 Aug. and 10 Dec. 1793 Montgomery Co., MD21 3. Thomas ALLISON23 m. Sarah;22 d. between 16 Feb. and 16 June 1774 Frederick Co., MD;22 left 5 shillings each to "brothers" [not named] and residue to wife; his widow secondly married Zachariah THOMPSON24 4. Benjamin ALLISON25 m. Mary;26 d. ca. 1810 Burke Co., NC27 5. Richard ALLISON18,28 m. Sarah35 CHESHIRE;29 he d. between 5 Apr. and 5 Sep. 1808 Bullitt Co., KY30 After the death of her husband Thomas ALLISON, his widow Barbara secondly married William COLLIER/COLYAR.14 In his will (not dated) William COLYAR stated his son William was to be free at 18 to possess his land, and that he shall allow his mother her living on the land.31 Child of William COLLYAR and Barbara BURCH: 1. William COLLYAR b. ca. 1732 (sic, age 44 in 1776 census);32 m. Sarah34 RAY33 5 Aug. 1754;33 d. between 4 Jan. 1792 and 15 Jan. 1794 Montgomery Co., MD34 footnote source: 14. Thomas Allenson inventory, MD inventories 17:349-350. Liber 27, folio 69 9 July 1748 COLYAR, WILLAM, dweller of Prince George's Co., planter. To sun William, who shall be free at 18 & allow his mother her living on the land, all my land, & if he d. s. p., to grdson Richard; one part of the land was taken out of Dan, another of Stub Hill, & one of 50a out of Elders Delight. To dau. Mary, 5-yrs. rent of Dann. To sun Richard, 5 sh. Witn: John Leech, Elener Leech, Francis Abston 8 Aug. 1749, sworn to by all 3 witn. in presence of Wm. Collyar, son to testator.	William Colyar
187	Based on continuing research as of 2024, it is now believed that the father of William Colyar, was a Richard Colyar from Frederick County MD. This Richard is believed to migrate to Pittsylvania County VA which part later became Henry County VA. Richard Colyar has a land survey in Pittsylvania county VA in 1766 and appears on personal property tax ledgers of Henry County VA until 1784. Some researchers have expounded on this William Colyar's full name as "William J.P. Colyar" . This researcher suspects this is misguided having been pulled from references in certain court documents in Washington County TN referring to William Colyar of 1754's son, William Colyar. William Colyar Jr. , who lived in Washington County TN was a justice of the peace there. Some documents refer to him as William Colyar JP.......I think referring to his office and this may have been misinterpreted and attributed to his father as his name. THE A.E. HART BOOK THE "RICHARD CALLOWAY FAMILY" IN SPEAKING OF JOHN COLLIER OF 1742 WHO WAS MARRIED TO GRIZZELDA TAYLOR, SAID THAT JOHN OF 1742'S FATHER WAS A JOHN COLLIER A PROSPEROUS PLANTER. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN JOHN COLLIER OF 1707. IT SAYS THAT JOHN OF 1707 HAD MANY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ONE OF WHICH WAS A WILLIAM (THIS WOULD BE WILLIAM OF 1754) MOVED TO TENNESSEE AND WAS LOST TO ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE KINDRED. THIS IS THE ONLY INDICATION OF WHO WAS WILLIAM OF 1754'S FATHER I HAVE FOUND. HOWEVER IT IS BORN OUT BY THE SEVERAL INDICATORS. FIRST THE QUESTION OF WHY WOULD JOHN OF 1707'S WILL NOT INCLUDE THIS CHILD WILLIAM IF HE WAS IN FACT A CHILD. THE REASON WAS THAT JOHN OF 1707'S WILL WAS DRAWN IN 1746 BEFORE WILLIAM OF 1754 WAS BORN, AS WAS THE CASE OF ANOTHER DOCUMENTED CHILD OF JOHN OF 1707---MARY....WHO THE VIRGINIA COUSINS BOOK SAYS WAS BORN IN 1756. NOTE THAT THIS JOHN OF 1707 DIED IN 1759. IF IN FACT WILLIAM COLYAR'S FATHER WAS JOHN COLLIER OF 1707, IT MAKES SINCE THAT WILLIAM MAY HAVE LEFT AND GONE TO TENNESSEE LOSING ALL CONTACT WITH HIS VIRGINIA COLLIER RELATIVES, FOR HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BUT 5 YEARS OLD WHEN HIS FATHER DIED AND BUT 10 WHEN HIS MOTHER DIED. WILLIAM COLYER from Dean Hunter Lexington Ky gedcom: WILLIAM COLYER of Greenbriar County, Virginia was living in Montgomery County, Virginia in the neighborhood of Roanoke, married a woman named St.Clair and had several sons, among them JOHN COLYER. Some of these sons of William Colyer were killed by Indians on the frontier of Virginia and in Kentucky. From a letter from Dr. Welby Colyer (a son of St.Clair Colyer) of Garrett, Ill., 1937, who died in 1940; Delia Colyer Powers, his sister, said that Dr. Welby Colyer had two daughters. A letter from Dr. Welby Colyer was found in a library in Salisbury, N. C. said that a Mrs. Bales in Pennington Gap, Virginia, said that William Colyer married a St.Clair woman and said that it was on file in Abingdon. . . Stella Colyer said that she checked and was told that the records don't go back that far. Mrs. Bales said that when CHARLES COLYER died, that a Mrs. William Colyer was one heir. She also said that St. Clair lived in St.Clair's Bottoms, near Powell Valley, Virginia. WILLIAM COLYER owned land in Washington County, Tennessee. (Washington County, Tenn., Deeds, Vol. 17, pg. 210, Oct. 18, 1821) JOHN COLYER of Pulaski County, Kentucky to Alexander Colyer of Washington County, Tenn., . ..a11 of my share in the estate of WILLIAM COLYER, deed., my father, to the three tracts of land in Washington County, Tennessee,on the south side of the Nolachucky River. -- This must have been JOHN'S brother, who stayed in Tennessee. Vol. 19, pg. 38, Washington Co., Deeds, April 9, 1827, . ..John Calvert and his wife Dorcas, (formerly Dorcas Colyer of Copper County, Missouri, convey land from the estate of her father WILLIAM COLYER, Sr. . I late of Washington County, Tenn. JOHN, Alexander, William and Dorcas are children of William Colyer. Stella Colyer Early tax records show a WILLIAM COLYER was living on the Nolachucky River in 1790, owned land and was paying a pole. so he was under 50. All free white men at that time between 21 and 50 had to pay a white poll." ____-________---__-__ List of taxables for years 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1801 list WILLIAM COLYER, on the Nolachucky River, in Washington County, Tennessee.3 _____-_________-____-- WILLIAM COLYER was a Justice of the Peace in Washington County, Tenn. in 1821. 1 . Letter from Stella Colyer to Gail Myers, April 23, 1973. 2 From Mrs. Wallace Tilden, Johnson City, Tenn. 3 . Mary H. McCowen, WASHINGTON CO. TENN. RECORDS, vol. 1, 1964 ABOVE INFO FROM GEDCOM OF CREATED BY DEAN HUNTER OF LEXINGTON KY. __________________________________________________________________________________ email from Clark Sinclair at University of Texas at Austin sinclair@tenet.edu dated 7/22/1998 refers to a deed book 2 page 506 entry wherein Agnes St. Clair sells her inherited share of St. Clair Bottom. This is Washington County VA. __________________________________________________________________________________ Washington County Historical Association http://www.uriel.com/history/ironwork.htm Embreeville Ironworks In July 1820, a few months before Elihu's death, the Embree brothers bought a mine, forge, and 260 acres of land on the Nolichucky River in Washington County, near the mouth of Bumpass Cove. Bumpass Cove, which is about 10 miles from Greasy Cove, seems to have been named after one Isaac Bumpass who lived in Washington County before 1770. However, he does not seem actually to have owned the land. The name is sometimes spelled Bumpres, Bumphers, and Bumbers [23]. Mining in Bumpass Cove started in the 1770s in a mine owned by William Colyer. Lead from the mines is reported to have been used to make bullets for the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The ore was said to be so rich that it could be smelted over an open wood fire and molded into bullets [24]. In 1791 Colyer sold the property, which then consisted of 550 acres of land, to Louis Newhouse and Andrew Leuthold for £400. This and adjacent land, totaling 3,100 acres was sold in 1800 to John Sevier, Jr.?the son of General John Sevier,for $3,000. In 1812 they sold it to William P. Chester who, in turn, sold it to the Embrees in 1820 for $4,500 [25]. However, Chester excluded from this sale 200 acres, which apparently included a lead, mine. ______________________________________________________________________ Re: Military record: Ms. Janis Ragar indicated that she had info that William was a private in the 6th Virginia Regiment under Capt. Samuel Hopkins. Per Richard Curtis search of 6th Virginia Regiment microfilm service records from National Archives copy in TN state library and archives, no William Collier/Colyer/Colyar appears 8/15/98. In Revolutionary War Records of Mecklenburg County Virginia by Katherine B. Elliott published by Southern Historical Press, Inc., page 43 refers to a William Collier b 1753 Enlisted in Meck. Co. for 2 years under Capt. Samuel Hopkins. Re-inlisted for three years in Company of Horse under Col. Thomas Bland. Pen. S-39334. White's Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files Vol I page 713 shows a William Collier, S39334, VA Line, appl 20 Jul 1818 Mecklenburg Cty VA aged 58 & had lived there at enl. I looked at copy of this pension extract in TN state library and archives 8/15/98 and noted that his man was crippled from war and had no family. Says he testified he was 61 6/19/1820 and after serving with Hopkins re-enlisted with company of horse in regiment of Col. Thomas Bland for 3 years. Says he is rough carpenter, without family and incapable of supporting himself from age and effects of wound received through his knee during war. Was placed on pension roll 7/20/1818 Cert # 12731 was issued 7/22/1819. There for these records do not show direct war service of William Colyar of Washington County TN Property: Per Dessie Simmons Johnson city TN from book North Carolina land grants in TN 1778-1791 by Goldien Burgner pub. Southern Historical: page 78 : 1788 grant of 130 acres North side of Nolichucky River Washington co. TN page 33 grant # 882: 1789 200 acres on Bumpus creek on southside of Nolichucky. 200 acres both sides of Nolichucky river page 34: 1790 150 acres in Bumpus cove/creek. page 137 grant 462 to a William Collier in 1782 640 acres on south side of Red River in what is now Davidson County TN?? this one not verified as connected to William Colyer of Washington Co. TN Per Dessie Simmons 8/8/98; many people who got these grants served in the Revolution but none of the North Carolina grants were for war service as in other states. She said that North Carolina grants were all paid for at the rate of about 50 schillinngs per 100 acres. She said that even John Sevier had to pay for his land. This is confirmed by deeds I have copies of supporting the land grants above that show that William Colyar paid for the land in these grants. See imaged article on Arthur St. Clair Colyar of article in Tennessean newspaper in 1907, stating that his grandfather (William) fought in the battle of King's mountain. I have not found William in any of the official lisings of soldiers at that battle, however following info from the National Park Service website for OverMountain Victory National Historic Trails at http://www.nps.gov/ovvi/troops.htm states that "The Patriot commanders did not keep or report official rosters of their men engaged against Ferguson at Kings Mountain. Dr. Lyman Draper's King's Mountain and its Heroes, combined with pension applications filed by veterans and their survivors well after the battle, are the main sources of information about the army. Per email from Pat Ross who works for the Bassett Virginia Historical library in Henry County VA, she stated per review of records there these folks are recorded as having take the Oath of Allegiance in Henry County VA: "Thomas Collier, William Collier, Charles Collier, Jesse Collier...no other spellings were listed. No date was given. The heading was "Citizens of Henry County who took the Oath of Allegiance" and it stated "The General Assembly of Virginia, when The United States was in its infancy, passed an Act to oblige all free male inhabitants of the State above sixteen years of age to give assurance of allegiance to the same. The following is a list of those who took the oath from the original record among the files in the Clerk's Office. At the time some were away fighting Indians, others hunting, and there were a few who refused to take the oath." " See the PDF documents section of this site referenced off the home page that says this Charles Colyer is of same family as A.S. Colyar descended. This is stated in Andrew Michaux's Travels in the Tennessee Country contain reference to him in March 1796 arriving at Charles Collier?s 10 miles from Jonesborough. A footnote to this comment states that this Charles Collier was of the family from which descended Col. Arthur St. Clair Colyar. You can see the Michaux's book in PDF section. This connects this Charles Colyer/Colyar to William Colyar of Washington Cty TN. Therefore, since Charles' pension file shows he was from Henry County VA, (see PDF section of site) it follows that the William Colyar showing up in Henry County VA signing an oath of allegience there with Charles in 1777 (see PDF section fo site) is brother to Charles. Thus it seems that the Colyer/Colyar/Coliar of Henry County VA is in fact the family of William Colyar of Washington County TN. The only land records I could find in Henry County VA is for a John Colliar on Leatherwood Creek off Smith River in Henry county VA. I believe this to be either brother or Father to William Colyar. http://www.roanetn.com/Holland_early.htm A List of the Company of Militia Under the Command of Capt. Joseph Martin in PITTSYLVANIA CO.VA 1774 Joseph Martin, Captain; John Cunningham, Lieutenant, David Chadwell, Ensign, William Cox and John Turner, Sergeants, Robert Perryman, Clerk Benja Dillion, Carter Dillion, Henry Dillion, Edmd Lyne, Michael Barker, John Barker, Mordicai Hoard, Henry Bradbury, Robert Searcy, John Witt(en)?, John Stamps, WILLIAM HOLLAND, THOS HOLLAND, James Short, James Spencer, John Walker, Henry Tate, Nathl Tate, Edmond Graves, Joseph Baker, John Palphrey, Humphry Posey, John Noe Senr, John Barker, Joel Barker, Chars Barker, Josiah Cox, Prier Noe, James Godard, William Dotson, Alex Jarves, Wm. Collyer, Jos Laurence, Chas Foster, John Turner Geo Reaves, Daniel Smith, Josiah Turner, Wm Turner, Josh Byrd, Richd Baker, Wm Mullins Senr, William Mullins Junr, John Mullins, Ambrose Mullis, Wm Standly Sr, Wm Standly Jur, Richd Standly, John Standly, Saml Packwood, Baine Carter, Pleasant Duke, Charles Dunkan, Wm Reed, John Goin, Richd Colliar, William Bays The majority of information shown on these pages (other than individual contributors as noted), comes from the writings of Snyder E. Roberts, and his wife, Pauline Halburnt Roberts. The most frequently-quoted book is his Roots of Roane County, TN - 1792- , published in 1981. Also his first book, Roberts Families of Roane County, TN, published in 1969-now out of print. (Reprints of Roots available from Oliver Springs Historical Society) http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/clement/mc/abb/06.htm Note above that William Collyer in Joseph Martin Militia Company Pittsylvania County VA 1774. Henry county was formed out of Pittsylvania County VA in 1775-1776. In "General Joseph Martin, of Virginia, An Unsung Hero of the Virginia Frontier" found in The Filson Club History Quarterly Vol 10 Louisville KY April 1936 No. 2 ; it says that Joseph Martin retired to his property on Leatherwood Creek ( SAME AS JOHN COLLIAR ABOVE). Volume II of Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlment in Virginia--Augusta County Original Court Records 1745-1800 by Lyman CHalkley. Pub. by Mary S. Lockwood, 1912......states in VOl II page 76 Judgements. Simon Eli vs. Robert and William Davis and Alexr. Wiley--O.S. 36; N.S. 12-- Bill 27th Oct 1800. In 1771 William McGhee (McGaughey) made a settlment in the Turkey Cove in Powell's Valley in the present Lee County, and obtained a certificate from the Commissioners in 1779, etc. William Collier deposes that in the winter and spring preceding Christian's campaign he remained at the camp of Thomas Lovelady. William was a hunter and trapper. the Indians became troublesome and the people had to leave. From website of Jean Colyer Grumbling: this Power of Attorney of son Alexander Colyar (son of William) which states that William Colyar and wife Nancy may have been living in Pulaski County Kentucky at the date of their death : Power of Attorney dated February 26, 1839 reads as follows: Know all men by thesse present that I, alexander Colyear of the County of Franklin and State of Tennessee hereby nominate, constitue and appoint my son, George T. Colyer of said county and state, my true and lawfull Attorney in fact for me and in my name to do and attend to all business I have any interest in in the state of Kentucky and more particularly to ask for, receive from and receipt for all money coming to me from the estate of my deceased Father, William Colyear late of the County of Pulaski and state of Kentucky or from the estate of my deceased mother, Nancy Colyear of said county and state and my said Attorney is also hereby authorized to bring suit or suits as he may think proper for the recovery of the same or to compromise the same in such way as he may think best and to give such receipts in my name as may be necessary hereby satisfying and confirming all the acts of my said Attorney may do in pursuance of this poser the same as if I was present and done the same myself. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February 1839. Alexander Colyear (his mark) State of Tennessee Franklin County I, John R. Paterick(?)an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforsaid hereby certify that Alexander Colyear personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the within power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February, 1839. John R. Patrick Justice of the Peace State of Tennessee Franklin County I, William W. Brazelton, clerk of the County Court of said County certify that John R. Patrick is and was at the time of making the above (unreadable) an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, legally qualified as such and entitled to (unreadable) and credit in all of his official acts. In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office, the 26th day of February, A.D.1839 William W. Brazelton, Clerk State of Tennessee Franklin County I, Wallis Estill (?) Jr., chariman and presiding magistrate of the county court of said county certify that William W. Brazelton whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is and was Clerk of said county of the time of signing the same and that his attestation is in due form of Law and sealed with the county seal. Given under my hand and seal this 26th day of February A.D. 1839. W. Estill Jr. Chairman of Franklin County Court (followed by another certification by Will Fawcett! Copy of Power of Attorney, now on file with Jean Colyer Grumbling.POA located in Book 10, Page 147. "Tennessee" by Moore, pg. 102 Richard Curtis note: based on info in this power of attorney, it appears that wife Nancy had gone to live with their son John Colyer living in Pulaski County in the region of Buck Creek and Cumberland River in Jugornot Hollow. It is possible that William was also in Pulaski County KY, but since his estate was probated in Washington County TN, it seems he may have died there and perhaps his wife afterward moved to Pulaski County KY. It appears that Nancy died there. John had deeds to about 150 acres at least in that area. He sold it to his first born son, Bluford Colyer in 1842 after having moved up Pittman creek to Ruth. My guess is that I suspect that this power of attorney that Alexander, John's brother, filed in 1839 coincided with the death of his mother Nancy Ann St. Claire Colyar. William is reported to have died 20 years earlier in 1819. Ancestry.com reports in the Tennessee Census of 1810's that in 1814, Wm Colyar Sr. and Wm Colyar Jr. and Alexander Colyer are still living in Washington County TN. Nancy Agnes Ann had likely gone to live with their most financially secure son, John....who like his father William had amassed land along a river likely in search of mineral rights. The only flat tillable land in the area was the jugornot Hollow off what is now highway 769 leading to Buck Creek boat dock. John's other brother Alexander had migrated from East TN to Franklin County TN (winchester) and was farming on leased land. His house had burned down on the Nolichucky river in Jonesboro TN area so migrated to Winchester TN. Since he had no deeded land in area....it appears he was not financially successful. The other son of William ( William Jr.) had become a justice of the peace in Jonesboro and was not a large land owner. So it appears John was the largest land owner by pioneering property and obtaining first deeds along the cumberland river in Pulaski county KY.	William Colyar
188	courtesy of https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I51882&tree=Tree1 1776-1825 Montgomery Co MD Wills COLLYAR, WILLIAM, Sr. L C f 136 4 Jan 1792 Wife: Sarah Collyar L 1 p 281 15 Jan 1794 Son: William Collyar, Jr. - pt. of Stubb Hill" (lease of 99 yrs) Son: James Collyar - pt. of "Dann". pt. of "Riders Delight", "Collyar's Resurvey Corrected" Son: John Collyar - pt."Stubb Hill" after 99 yrs.,"Sine of the Meadows" Daus: Keziah Wilson, wife of Zadoc Wilson; Ann Collyar; Eleanor Collyar; Elizabeth Greenfield; Sarah Campbell Exs: Wife Sarah and son James Collyar Wit: Frederick Wetzel, Philip Yost, King English === MARYLAND RECORDS-FREDERICK COUNTY ; Page 182 Lower Potomack Hundred ..A LIST OF THE NUMBER OF SOULS TAKEN & GIVEN IN TO THE COMMITTEE OF OBSERVATION. THE SEX & AGES OF WHITE & BLACK, AUG. 22, 1776." Colyar, William 44 William, Junr 17 John 11 James 6 Sarah 43 Keziah 20 Sarah 15 Elizabeth 13 Lucy 4 Ann 2 === June 1765 - Frederick Co., Md. Land Records. William Collier, of Frederick Co., Md., leases to Benjamin Loveless for the life of Benjamin Loveless, Sarah his wife, and Nathan their son, 67 acres of "Dann," on the main road commonly called Rock Creek Main Road, adjoining to Mr. Edward Burches land. Source: Frederick Co., Md. Land Records, Liber J, pp. 1203-5. === http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/stagser/s1400/s1437/html/1437mo.html Maryland State Archives MARYLAND INDEXES (Assessment of 1783, Index) 1783 Montgomery County MSA S 1437 William Collyar. Addition to Remains, 100 acres. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 15. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 William Collyar. Sign of the Meadow, 22 1/2 acres. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 21. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 William Collyar. Stubb Hill, 85 acres. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 21. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 William Collyar. Dan, 195 acres. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 17. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 William Collyar. Elders Delight. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 17. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 William Collyar, Jr. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 4. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 William Collyar, Sr. MO Middle Potomac, Lower Potomac, and Georgetown Hundred, p. 4. MSA S 1161-8-3 1/4/5/51 === Montgomery County Land Records, 1792-1794; Liber E, {Patricia Anderson}; E:503 John and Mary Collyer record deed of gift from Mary Rawlins, mother of Mary, and James Ray Collyer and Eleanor Collyer, her brother and sister; one Negro girl, Rachel, from the estate of John Rawlins, her father, for love and 5 shillings. Wit. Joseph Hall. === Montgomery County Land Records, 1795-1797; Liber G, {Patricia Anderson}; 640-641. George Riley recorded 26 October 1797, made same date, from James Collyer, for £300, part of Colyer?s Resurvey Corrected, adjacent to Dann, no metes & bounds given. Signed by James Collyer before John L. Summers, E. Swearingen. Eleanor wife of James Collyer relinquished dower === Montgomery County Land Records, 1799-1801; Liber I, {Patricia Anderson}; Page 351-352. Sarah Collyar (relict of William Collyar) recorded 2 February 1801, from Charles Greenfield, deed for £1200 sells part of parcel Pleasant Hill. Adjacent to tract Brother?s Industry. And also Tryall. containing 315 acres. Elizabeth wife of Charles Greenfield released dower. 352-354. Charles Greenfield recorded 2 February 1801 from Sarah Collyer, deed for £1200 tract as above.	William Colyar
189	courtesy of https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I56760&tree=Tree1 COLYAR, WILLIAM, Prince George's Co., planter. 8 Aug, 1749 To son William, my lands that I possess, and he shall allow his mother her living on the land. William shall be free at 18 of age to have his possession of land, and shall not make any sale of same. If he shd. die without hrs., it shall fall to grand-son Richard; 1 pt. of land was taken out of a tract called by name "Dan," the other pt. of the land called "Stubb Hill, another of 50 A. called "Elders Delite," all as I leave at my decease to son William. To dau. Mary, 5 years rent of that land called 'Dann." To son Richard, 5 s. Wit: John Leech, Elener Leech, Francis Abston. The will is signed Wm. Colear; written in the probate paragraph as William Collyar. 27. 69 === William Collier 42.23 FR £40.16.0 Aug 9 1749 Mar 21 1750 Appraisers: James Perry, John West. Creditors: George Gordon, Thomas Owen. Administratrix: Barbary Collier === William Collyer 28.326 A FR £40.1.0 £43.7.11 Jun 21 1750 Payments to: Thomas Owens, George Gordon. Executrix: Barbary Collyer (widow) === http://fzsaunders.com/allison.html After the death of her husband Thomas ALLISON, his widow Barbara secondly married William COLLIER/COLYAR. In his will (not dated) William COLYAR stated his son William was to be free at 18 to possess his land, and that he shall allow his mother her living on the land. Child of William COLLYAR and Barbara BURCH: 1. William COLLYAR b. ca. 1732 (sic, age 44 in 1776 census);m. Sarah RAY 5 Aug. 1754; d. between 4 Jan. 1792 and 15 Jan. 1794 Montgomery County, Maryland === Contributed by Ralph D. Smith May 30, 1733 - Exhibited from Charles Co. Bond of William Collier & his wife Barbara administratrix of Thomas Allinson. Sureties: William Benson, Reuben Elder. Source: Maryland Prerogative Court, Testamentary Proceedings, Liber 29, p. 290. MD Administration Accounts 28:326 William COLLYER of Frederick County had as executrix Barbary COLLYER, the widow on 21 June 1750. MD Inventories 42:23 listed Barbary COLLIER as administratrix for the inventory dated 9 Aug. 1749, which was approved 21 Mar. 1750. Barbary was not listed by name in the will, but the administration and inventory show she was still living, and not some other wife. The will calls her the mother of William. Richard in mentioned in mid 1740s deeds [therefore of age born no later than mid 1720s] and since he only got 5 shillings, it looks like he was from a first wife of William COLLIER. The son William in 1765 with his wife Sarah rented "Stubb Hill" to Philip CLUB, Jr. his wife June, and son Samuel for their natural lives, but if William COLLIER or his wife after his death should come to dwell in the aforesaid province again, then the said Philip CLUBB, Jr. to deliver up the land to them. (Frederick Deeds J:1202) William COLLIER apparently returned to MD, for his will in the 1790s along with wife Sarah and children mentions "Stubb Hill." 1776 census Lower Potomack Hundred, Frederick County, Virginia William COLYAR 44 Sarah 43 Keziah 20 William Jr. 17 Sarah 15 Elizabeth 13 John 11 James 6 Lucy 4 Anne 2 William must have added a couple years for the census if he is the son of Barbara. William COLLYAR will written 4 Jan. 1792, probated 15 Jan. 1794. Wife Sarah Son William Jr. pt of "Stubb Hill" son James pt. of "Dann", pt. of "Elders Delight", Collyar's Resurvey Corrected" son John pt. "Stubb Hill" " Sine of the Meadows" daughters Keziah WILSON wife of Zadoc WILSON; Anne COLLYAR; Eleanor COLLYAR; Elizbeth GREENFIELD; Sarah CAMPBELL Exs: Wife Sarah and son James Wit: Frederick WETZEL, Philip YOST, King ENGLISH "Sarah COLLYAR, widow William" will 2 Oct. 1800; probated 16 Apr. 1801 Daughters Elizabeth GREENFIELD, Sarah CAMEL, Anne CULP, Eleanor ADAMS; grandsons Lilbourn W. COLLYAR, James CAMEL, George CAMEL, sons of Sarah CAMEL Ex: Elizabeth GREENFIELD Wit.: Peter BECRAFT, William GLAZE Note there were two men named William COLLIER in the 1730s, as evidenced by the marks with which they signed documents and that there wives had different names. The first Willam had a wife Mary. In looking at the mark recorded by the clerk in the deed books: Prince George's County, Land Records T:300 in 1735 where William COLYER and Mary COLYER were witnesses and Prince George's County, Land Records BB1:482 on 9 Feb. 1732/3 but not recorded until 1745 where William COLLIER (and wife Mary), John NEVILL (and wife Margett) and Thomas BOND (and wife) Elizabeth sold "Turkey Thickett" to John BOYD. the mark of this William could be described as a 3 in both the above. Some researchers have confused that William of Page County with the one who wrote the will. As listed above, the other probate records show that the William of the will was the one who married Barbara (BURCH) ALLISON. The one that married Barbara (BURCH) ALLISON/ALLINSON remained in Charles County after settling her first husband Thomas ALLISON's estate. After her eldest son came of age and could sell the land, they all then moved to Prince George's County. Charles County, Maryland Land Records O#2: 372 (published abstract incorrectly says 481) on 17 Jan. 1740/1 his mark is an X with a straight line conncting the NW and SW corners of the X, and a straight line running NE from the SE corner. To read the MD Cal. of Wills, you would think that William signed his name to his will. MD wills 27:69 shows he signed his will with a mark that looks like two V's overlapping, the left side of the first V is straight up and down, the upper left side of the second V almost meets the upper left side of the first V. In otherwords, the same mark as when he sold his land in Charles County. === Archibald Anderson 9.224 A CH £3.1.4 £24.5.7 May 10 1728 Received from: William Davis, Jr., Adam Clinkacales, Robert Colvert, John Peacock, William Collier, Stephen Brown, Stephen Mankin, widow Gambrill, John Cooper, Zachariah Wade, John Newton, Thomas Milistead, Thomas Skinner, Anthony Collins. Payments to: Mr. John Howard, Daniell McDaniel, William Sanders, Dr. John Chalmers, Samuel Hanson. Administrator: William Benson. === Apr. 1748 - Prince George's Co., Md. Land Records. Samuel Beall, Jr., of Prince George's Co., planter, and wife Eleanor, deed to William Collier of Prince George's Co., planter, part of a tract of land called "Dann," adjacent to Edward Burch's part of the aforesaid tract of land, containing about 67 acres. Witnesses included Thomas Owen. Source: Prince George's Co., Md. Land Records, Liber EE, p. 427. Comment: William Collier was m. to Edward's aunt IX. Barbara Burch. Thomas Owen was m. to Edward's aunt XI. Elizabeth Burch.	William Colyar
190	Greene County, TN Deed book 2 page 172-173. 20 May 1792 William Colyar and Ann his wife sold to William Scruggs 130 acres of land lying below Andrew Leepers on the north side of Nolichuckey River.	William Colyar
191	https://sinclairpioneers.wordpress.com/buncombe-county-n-c-records/ Deeds, Buncombe Co., N.C. v. G-H 1814-1815, v. 1-2 1789-1800. FamilySearch IGN 7551934. Image 676 of 1058. 20 April 1796, James Davidson and Edward Jonson witnesses for a deed between David Miller of Rutherford Co. and Joseph Henry for his son John Henry of Buncombe Co. Image 162 of 1058. Pages 304-305 of vol. G. Indenture 9 Jan 1813 between James Patton and Andrew Erwin of Aphill, NC and Benjamin Ellison of same county. For $1200 paid to Patton and Erwin. 250 acres to Ellison on both sides of Benjamin Davidsons River as granted by N.C. to Weightstill Avery by grant no. 580 dated 24 Dec. 1798 and by him conveyed to Edward Johnson and conveyed by Wm Colyer as attorney in fact and Deborah Johnson as wife of said Edward Johnson to Patton and Erwin on 14 April 1803. Mentions Benjamin Davidson's line, Turkey creek. Deed recorded in court session Jan. 1815.	William Colyar
192	https://sinclairpioneers.wordpress.com/the-children-of-charles-and-ann-sinclair/ court record transcription found in The Ridge Runners, volume 9, no. 1, August 1977, pp. 194-195, accessed via FamilySearch.org. Buncombe Co., NC, April session 1795, The deposition of Alexander St. Clair, and William Chambers, ordered to be recorded at length as follows Viz., State of No. Carolina, Buncombe County: This day came Alexander St. Clair before me, and being duely sworn saith, that he saw a bond in possession of William Colyer, against Doctor Sewthold and Mathew Adkinson, to stand between him in any suit or suits, that might be brought by General Seveir, Charles Robison or any other person or persons, respecting the mines and the lands including the mines, which the said Sewthold & Adkinson bought from the said Colyer, and a number of other papers to the use of sd. Sworn to before this 21st day of April 1795. Alexander St. Clair State of No. Carolina, Buncombe County: This day came Wm. Chambers and made that on the 21st day of January the dwelling house of James Chambers was burnt and William Colyer sent a small trunk, with William Chambers, and said deponant put it in his trunk, and has reason to believe was burnt with the rest of the goods in the house. Sworn and subscribed before this 26th day of January 1795.	William Colyar
193	Presumed older brother to William = Captain Thomas Collier who signed oath of allegience in 1777 in Henry County VA: It is thought that another Thomas Collier not directly related to the Colyer's that moved to Pulaski County KY, was a decorated Rev. War hero and received large land grant in Western KY. A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, BY E. POLK JOHNSON, LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY VOL. III, PAGE 1621 PUBLISHED 1912 FOUND IN HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY: "Captain Thomas Collier was a son of John Collier, )r., and Sarah Collier, his cousin and wife. John,Jr..was the son of John Collier, Sr., and a Miss Gaines, his second wife. John Collier, Sr., was the son of Charles and Mary Collier, and Charles Collier was born in Eng land about 1660. and resided in King and Queen county, Virginia."	William Colyar
194	The information about William Colyar being from Greenbriar County VA is doubtful. It appears that this information came from Dr. Welby Colyer. His letter on this site under his name has several facts that have been shown to be in error 100 years after its writing. It is possible that early William Colyar's family moved from Greenbriar to Henry County VA , where more connecting documents are found. However, it appears the family was in the area of Henry County VA for some time.	William Colyar
195	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Adaline Colyer
196	Ad Colyer also ran a store at Alcade, KY Jane Holt Whitis: I think Add Colyer took over as postmaster at the Alcalde post office when my father sold the store there around 1952. Dexter Alexander: Add Colyer was Ruth postmaster from 1937 to 1944. He took over from my grandfather, John E Alexander, who operated the store and post office beginning in 1925.	Add N. Colyer
197	According to Cliva Colyer Minton 06/2005 who lives in Jugornot Hollow Pulaski County TN, she said that Ad Colyer ran the grocery store for years that was at Ruth Kentucky.	Add N. Colyer
198	According to Mr. Meece, who attends Clay Hill Baptist Church in 2013 who ran a auto garage about 2 miles out hwy 192 from Pitman Creek on left of 192, in interview at the 192 market 08/02/13 said he remembered Add Colyer who ran the Ruth Store awhile. Mr. Meece said he would go into the old store often. Mr. Meece is 78 in 2013. Mr. Meece said that Add Colyer lived back Mayfield Hollow Road.	Add N. Colyer
199	Alonzo Denny Colyer, who was a jeweler in Somerset for years.	Alonzo Denny Colyer
200	Census: 1870 Pulaski Co., KY Note: Lived on a farm in Frankfort, Indiana.	Andrew Alexander Colyer