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The Carson Family

From Washington County, Virginia
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James Holman (Holdman, Holeman)
Born: about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky
Died: about 1886 in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky

James Holman (Holdman, Holeman) was born about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky. He lived in the area of Brodhead (Stigall's Stand) and Crab Orchard, Kentucky, which are on the border of three Kentucky counties: Lincoln, Garrard, and Rockcastle.

On June 4, 1835 in Garrard County, Kentucky, James Holman was married to Martha Ramsey, the daughter of Alexander Ramsey, by Baptist minister Benjamin Polston.

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The results of the DNA tests show that the descendant of James Holeman, b. 1814 is:

"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Daniel Holman who was born about 1787 in North Carolina, had children in Tennessee, and homesteaded in Douglas, Missouri;

"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Kenneth Holeman who died in 1871 in Upperfreehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey who is thought to be a descendant of Robert Holeman, died 1709 in New Jersey;

"related" to a descendant of the Elias Holeman (1759 - 1827, Burlington County, New Jersey); and

"related" to the descendants of Thomas Holeman, born about 1723, who moved from Virginia to North Carolina in 1752.

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Notes from

Pioneers of Old Monocracy
The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland
1721-1743
by Grace L Tracy and John P Dern

Page 13:

Charles Carroll, "the Settler," purchased from the Indians land where the Monocacy River emptied into the Potomac River around 1710

White traders began to appear.
* John (died 1726) and Edmund Cartledge, Quakers from Lancaster Co., Pa. Edmund Cartledge was in "Monocasie Hundred" in 1732.
* William Wilkins (died 1734)
* John Hance Steelman (1721 in Cecil Co., Maryland; Lived in area claimed by both colonies, Died 1749 in Lancaster Co., Pa)
* Charles Anderson. (1722, lived in Western Maryland; 1725, kept orphan John Fowler; 1732, paid debt to Richard Bennett)
* Abraham Pennington (from Cecil Co., Maryland)
* John Van Meter (first of the traders to acquire title to the land on which he lived - sixth survey made in Frederick County, April 12, 1724)
* Thomas Cresap (born England, in 1730) settled in Pennsylvania on west side of Susquehanna River in area also claimed by Maryland.

Page 15

John Van Meter
Associated with the Delaware Indians
Prior to 1725, he explored land on South Branch of Potomac River.
On one of his trips between New York and Virginia he had surveyed 300 acres on the Metre branch which flows into the Monocracy River.
In 1734, John Addison and John Van Meter were constables of Monocracy Hundred. (pg 31)

page 16

Boundary Dispute between William Penn and Lord Baltimore.
Exact location of 40th Parallel was unknown. 40th Parallel was the intended boundary.
As settlers moved west both colonies sold land in the disputed area.
First settlers in the area thought they were in Baltimore County, Maryland, not Chester County, Pennsylvania
Each colony was arresting the settlers from the other colony (the Conojohelar War)
1732-1736 violence in the disputed area.
Thomas Cresap was the leader of the Maryland settlers in disputed area.
Following a Royal Order in 1738 Maryland and Pennsylvania agreed to a temporary line. Thomas Cresap determined whether or not the line cut through the Potomac River.

page 20

In 1749, Ohio Company formed to trade with Indians and to separate them from the French in the Ohio Valley
Thomas Cresap and his son Daniel
Thomas Lee of Virginia
George Fairfax
Lawrence and Augustine Washington (brothers of future President)
John Hanbury of London, James Wardrop

Thomas Cresap blazed the trial between Potomac and Ohio Rivers: Braddock's Road, National Pike, (US 40)

page 23

The Indian Traders just "squatted" on the land, and kept moving away from new arrivals.

Lord Baltimore and his allies soon realized that money could be made by renting and selling land on the frontier. Land investors or speculators soon moved in. They secured large tracts (5,000 acres or more) of the choice land along the Potomac and Monocracy rivers. This made it difficult for small settlers.
Therefore, Virginia, not Maryland, was the place to secure free and accessible land (1720-1730).

pages 45, 50

"Monocacy" referred to the general area, not a particular town or village. (Settlements started near the rivers and over time moved further away.)

Travelers from the tidewater area followed the Potomac River to Monocacy.
Travelers from Pennsylvania heading south passed through Monocacy.

page 86

1730: Quaker leaders Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan received from Virginia Governor and Council 100,000 acres on Opequon River in the Shenandoah Valley.

page 133

Johann Casper Stover: Senor and Junior
born in Germany
1728, arrived in Philadelphia (missionary and theological student)
1733: Hebron church in Madison County, Virginia
1734: father returned to Germany to raise funds (1739: died at sea on return trip)
Son remained in Pennsylvania. (only Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania)
Son kept journal of marriages and baptisms. Not grouped by date. Grouped by family and by where the family lived, not where the event took place.
1735, son began crossing the Susquehanna River and by May 1735 reached the German Opequon settlement in Virginia.
From 1735 to 1740 son went to Virginia each year. On the way, he went through Monocacy valley in Maryland
Son died 1779

page 224

daughters of Daniel and Frances Johnson:
Sarah Johnson married Richard Touchstone
Hannah Johnson married Thomas Cresap

after Daniel Johnson died, Frances married:
Edward Harris
Hugh Grant
Miles Foy (part of the Conojohelar War)

pages 258, 296

John Henry Neff in 1746 purchased 355 acres in Monocacy ("Taskers Chance") on land he was already settled on.
After 1746 John Henry Neff deeded land back to Dulany

1749/1750 Dr John Henry Naffe had 470 acres surveyed at Bushey Bottom on the North Fork of the Shenandoah. He purchased land where he lived from Adam Shurel in Jost Hite's grant (next to Old Daniel Holman).

page 292

1748 report to Maryland Assembly:
The sheriff as the tax collector was applying ten percent surcharge to German settlers and keeping it for himself.
As a result many Germans moving out of the area.

page 302

In order to secure long term, re-occurring income, Lord Baltimore set up areas (6,000 acres or more) to be leased, not sold.
These were called manors. (mostly located on eastern shore or on the western shore south of present day Montgomery County)
Not popular. Settlers preferred to buy cheap land.

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Page 69 Carroll Creek settlement area (near present day Frederick)

John Van Meter (1683-1745)
Trader of Dutch descent. Lived in New York and New Jersey.
Parents: Joost Jansen van Meeteren and Sarah Dubois (lived in Kingston area of NY, along the Hudson River)
By 1714, John Van Meter, his mother, and younger brother Isaac were in Salem County, New Jersey (Obtained 3,000 acres on Alloway Creek from Col Daniel Cox)
Isaac remained in New Jersey, John traveled through Maryland to reach Virginia.
Saw land in Monocacy he liked. Survey April 21, 1724 (more than 20 years prior to settlement of the town of Frederick) Called "Metre"
Nov 18, 1725 surveyed another tract along Carroll Creek, called "Meadow"
In 1729, 1731, 1732, and 1734 John Van Meter was constable of Monocacy Hundred (from mouth of Monocacy River to Pennsylvania and all of Maryland to the west.)
Lived in Maryland until about 1735.

June 17, 1730 John Van Meter and brother Isaac received from Virginia Governor and Council grants of 10,000 acres each in Shenandoah Valley. An additional 20,000 acres would be granted if twenty families were settled within two years.

Aug 5, 1731: Van Meter brothers transferred the grants (with the conditions) to "Just" Hite.
Hans Justus Heyd was born in Germany in 1685 and there in 1704 he married Anna Marie Merkle.
He, his wife, and his eldest son migrated to London in 1709 and to New York in 1710.
In 1730, he was living in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
With his partner, Robert McKay from Cecil Co., Maryland, they sought a Virginia land grant for 10,000 acres in the Shenandoah Valley.
Hite left Pennsylvania in 1731. Went by the German Monocacy Road in Monocacy Valley, over the South Mountain, across the Potomac River, to area near Opequon River in Virginia.

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In 1735 John Van Meter relocated to the Shenandoah Valley.
Sons: John Jr, Isaac, Henry, Abraham, and Jacob.
Daughters: Magdalene, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rachel, and Mary.

John Jr, son of John Van Meter
Aug 1, 1729: 200 acres surveyed on Carroll Creek in Monocacy (next to his father's land).
Died early leaving two small children: John and Johanna. (Joseph Hedges took children to Virginia and became their guardian)
Johanna later married William Burns of Virginia.

Isaac, son of John Van Meter
Dec 1, 1729: 200 acres surveyed on Lingamore Creek "Isaac's Inheritance"
Sold to Jacob Stoner in 1744 when he and wife Alice moved to Virginia.
Isaac died 1748.

Henry, son of John Van Meter
Returned to New Jersey.
Relocated to Virginia near Solomon Hedges (who married Henry's sister, Rebecca)

Abraham, son of John Van Meter
Married Ruth Hedges, sister of Solomon and Jonas Hedges
Moved to Berkley Co., (West) Virginia

Jacob, son of John Van Meter
Lived in Kentucky in later years

Sarah, daughter of John Van Meter
Married James Davis
Moved to Berkley Co., (West) Virginia

Mary, daughter of John Van Meter
Married Robert Jones (1729: Constable with John Van Meter)
Relocated to Virginia

Elizabeth, daughter of John Van Meter (See Kentucky Surnames)
married Thomas Shepherd (originally from New Jersey)
1734: settled in Shepherdstown, (West) Virginia
She inherited her father's land located in Maryland across the Potomac River from Shepherdstown, (West) Virginia

Rachel, daughter of John Van Meter
married Mr Lefarge

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Isaac Van Meter, brother of John Van Meter
1736: Isaac made tomahawk improvement to land in Frederick Co., Virginia that became Hardy County (West) Virginia on south branch of Potomac River. Returned to New Jersey. Came back to find Mr. Coburn settled on land. Bought him out. Returned to New Jersey.
1744: relocated family to land in Hardy County (West) Virginia
two of his daughters married sons of Jost Hite
Rebecca Van Meter - Abraham Hite
Mary Van Meter - Jacob Hite
Isaac Van Meter died 1757
Isaac Van Meter will:
wife Annah
son Jacob
son Garet
daughter Sarah Hickman
daughter Catherine
daughter Hellita
daughter Rebecca (widow of Abraham Hite)

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Rebecca Van Meter, sister of Isaac Van Meter and John Van Meter
Born 1686 in Kingston, New York
1704 married Cornelius Elting in New York
After 1728, they relocated on the Montgomery County side of Monocacy River in Maryland.
daughter Jacomyntje Elting married John Thompson
Two daughters married sons of Jost Hite
Sarah Elting - John Hite
Eleanor Elting - Isaac Hite

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Notes on
Genealogy of Thomas Hutchins of Salem, Massachusetts
by Jack Randolph Hutchins

Walter Newman was born about 1665 in England or Ireland and in 1683 migrated to Perth Amboy, New Jersey where he was an indentured apprentice to brothers Stephen and Thomas Warne. (Their father, Thomas Warne was one of the twenty-four proprietors of Province of New Jersey.

The brother Thomas Warne, a carpenter, lived in Monmouth County, south of the Raritan River from Perth Amboy.

Walter Newman was to be indentured for seven years, but after four years Walter Newman became a freeman and (along with John Kaighin, William Ellison, and Anthony Ashmore) petitioned the New Jersey proprietors for a land grant in Monmouth County. He sold his share of the land grant (thirty acres), and in 1695 Walter Newman, carpenter, of Freehold bought 164 acres called "Neversinks side" near Cheesquake, New Jersey.

Walter Newman married "Mary" probably about 1690. The family was mentioned (about 1704) in parish register of St Mary's of Burlington, New Jersey.
wife: Mary
Children: John, Mary, Rachel, Martha, Walter, Sarah, Rebecca, William, and Richard.

In 1708, Walter Newman sold his New Jersey land and bought 500 acres in the part of Philadelphia County that became Berks County (east of the Schuylkill River).

Walter and family then moved to Cecil County, Maryland where they belonged to St Stephen's parish. He leased land in Cecil County in 1716 and renewed in 1722. The lease mentions younger sons: Walter, William, Richard,
Samuel, and Jonathon.

Walter Newman's Will: dated 1725; probated 1729 in Cecil County, Maryland. Estate settled 1733.

Prior to 1733, Mary Newman, the widow of Walter Newman, married Thomas Moore. (Who is this?)

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Rebecca Newman, a daughter of Walter and Mary Newman, was born about 1700 in New Jersey and married Daniel Allen in 1719 in Cecil County, Maryland. This Daniel Allen was the brother of: 1) the Mary Allen (born 1720) who about 1737 in Frederick County, Virginia married Thomas Moore (1712-1790); and 2) the Joseph Allen (1732-1805) who about 1761 married Ruth White (1732-1781), the daughter of William White (1700-1766) and his first wife Rose.

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Walter Newman, a son of Walter and Mary Newman, was born about 1696 in New Jersey. This is the Walter Newman who laid out the village of Newmanstown (Newbury) in Heidelberg, Pennsylvania. Walter Newman, born about 1696, had a son John Newman, born about 1740, who had a son Walter Newman, born about 1761 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Walter Newman, born 1761, moved to Shenandoah Valley in 1791, and in 1827 he was in Mason County, Kentucky. About 1779 this Walter Newman married Catherine Barbara Zimmerman. In 1840 married Elizabeth Wheeler in Ohio. Walter Newman, born 1761 had a daughter Elizabeth Newman, born about 1790 and died 1874. She married John Holdeman of Kentucky. (Who is this?)

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Samuel Newman, a son of Walter and Mary Newman was born March 15, 1713 in Cecil County, Maryland. His father's will said that Samuel and Samuel's younger brother, Jonathan, were to receive the land and plantations when they became of age.
About 1737 Samuel Newman married Martha.
About 1740 Samuel and Martha were received in the Montgomery Baptist Church in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
About 1744 Samuel and Martha moved to Shenandoah Valley near New Market, Virginia. (His brother Jonathan probably moved with him.)
Samuel Newman was the administrator of the estate of his brother Jonathan.
In 1749 Samuel Newman bought 400 acres on Smith's Creek from Lord Fairfax.
Samuel and Martha were active in Linville Creek Baptist Church.
About 1765, Samuel and Martha moved to the part of Berkeley County that became Newberry County, South Carolina (in the forks of the Broad and Saluda Rivers).
In 1771, Samuel Newman was a charter member and the first pastor of Bush River Church.
Samuel Newman Will: dated 1778; probated 1779.
Samuel and Martha children:
Samuel (1738-1795)
Uriah (1740-1796)
Martha (1741-1795)
Mary (1743-1800)
Jane (1746-1795)
John (1750-1787)

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Jonathan Newman, a son of Walter and Mary Newman, was born August 5, 1716 in Cecil County, Maryland.
About 1737, Jonathan Newman married "Mary" and moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
About 1746 Jonathan and Mary moved to the Shenandoah Valley.
Jonathan Newman died about 1747. His brother Samuel Newman was estate administrator.
In 1748, the widow Mary Newman bought land from Lord Fairfax.
The widow Mary Newman married a Mr Staits.
Jonathan and Mary children:
John born about 1740 in Pennsylvania. Married Hariett
Walter born about 1742 in Pennsylvania. Married Catherine. He died July 29, 1815.

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It appears that John Van Meter, the Indian Trader in the Monocacy Valley, influenced settlers in northeast Maryland to relocate to the area in the Virginia Shenandoah Valley called "The Forest" (between Mt Jackson on the north and present day New Market on the south). They may have migrated in two groups, following the same path used by the Van Meters, which was also used by Governor Spotswood in 1716 (Swift Run Gap).

* The first of these settlers (about 1735) chose the prime land - where a stream flowed into the north branch of the Shenandoah River: Old Daniel Holman, Benjamin Allen, Riley Moore, and William White.

* the later group (about 1740) got land further from the River and the valley road:

** Thomas Holman (brother of Old Daniel Holman) with some teenage boys: Thomas Holman (died 1798), Isaac Holman (died 1808), and Isaac Johnson (the Isaac Johnson who was the father of the Isaac Johnson (1745-1814) who married Elizabeth Holman, oldest daughter of Isaac Holman, died 1808.)

** James Cathey (about 1685, Ireland) migrated to America about 1720 and settled first in Cecil County, Maryland, and then moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania. Before 1739, James and his family moved to Augusta County, Virginia on Cathey's River adjoining Beverly Manor. [Cecil County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania shared an ill-defined border.] Did some Cathey family members continue on to "The Forest"?

** Two sons of Walter and Mary Newman (Samuel and Jonathan) around 1744 settled on Smith Creek in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

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