Re: Falther of Jeremiah Sandy who married Catherine Beck
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Falther of Jeremiah Sandy who married Catherine Beck
Guy sandy 1/03/07
Guy, this is a fantastic discovery.Of course we all realize that the abiding caveat with these local histories is that the author/compiler interviewed the subjects, took notes, then went home and wrote the books.So sometimes there were note-taking errors and name or relationship confusions because of the pre tape-recording method used to gather the information.Also, the person being interviewed told the story as he heard it or recalled it and therefore errors could have been made that way too.
But because of census evidence, I have thought for some time that Jared/Jerred/Gerrard Sandy was related to the William Henry Sandy/Catherine Beck family; ie brothers, father and son or first cousins.Here is some of the information I have on this topic:
The 1790 Hillsborough, Wake County NC census has a Jarred Sandey over the age of 21 with 3 underage boys and 2 females. In the same census, but not next door on the list, there was a William Sandey over the age of 21 who has a female, but no children.William Henry Sandy, (not Jeremiah Sandy as the Boone County history book asserts) is reported by his descendants to have married Catherine Beck abt 1789. William Henry Sandy made his will in 1826 Washington County, Indiana and named his wife Catherine. (William Henry and Catherine did have a son named Jeremiah, the great-great grandfather of Charles Herbert Sandy who wrote “Dawn to twilight: the History of the Sandy Family etc.”)
In 1800, one finds a widow Letty Sandy in Wake County, NC. Letty Sandy was Lettice Dozier, wife of a Gerard Sandy who made his will in 1794 NC.In it Gerard named his children Mary, Henry, Francis and Vinson. I have not yet been able to find what happened to Letty and these Sandy children. Dozier is a well-known Northern Neck Virginia surname, as is the surname Gerard/Gerrard.
A Jarret Sandy is found taking an Oath of Allegiance in Bute County, North Carolina in “Miscellaneous Records of NC 1774-1804.”Since Wake County was created when Bute was split in 1779, I would estimate this oath was made between 1774 and 1779.That date-range would require adult oath-takers to have been born before 1758 at the latest.
On October 16 1755, a Gerrard Sandy and William Sandy can be found on the military payroll of Capt William Peachey in Winchester, Virginia. This William Sandy, born in 1731 is believed to have been the spouse of Dinah Wood.This Gerrard Sandy would have to have been born before 1743 .
In 1766, there was a Bute County NC taxpayer named Jeremiah Sandy who would have to have been born before 1745.
The Boone County History reports Jared/Unknown1, Jeremiah/Catherine Beck2, William Henry/Lucinda Thompson3 and James Allen/Mary Jane Mosier4. However, Sandy descendants of this line say through their chroniclers, Dr. William Allee Sandy and Charles Herbert Sandy, that this was the paternal order: William Henry/Catherine Beck1, William Henry (Jr)./Lucinda Thompson 2, James Allen/Mary Jane Mosier3
Charles Herbert Sandy (1st cousin, 3 times removed of James Allen Sandy) also told a story of how William Henry1’s father, also named William Henry, was born in 1740 and set out from “Licking Creek” (in Virginia or another part of NC??? never specified) and went to the Carolinas in 1755 to stay with relatives. When he returned home around 1758 his parents had been killed or taken by Indians, so he spent several months looking for them in the “Big Sandy River country” and with some French fur traders who went west toward St. Louis. Some of Charles Herbert’s story sounds similar to James Allen’s story of his Great-grandfather Jared…a man driven away by Indians never to be again reunited with his family.
So we have an interesting mix of information to ponder!
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Re: Falther of Jeremiah Sandy who married Catherine Beck
Molly McLaughlin 7/09/09