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Ancestors of Virginia Cecil Lillard

Generation No. 8


      128. Benjamin Lillard, born 1701. He was the son of 256. John Lillard and 257. Mildred Jones. He married 129. Elizabeth Lightfoot 1724.

      129. Elizabeth Lightfoot She was the daughter of 258. William Lightfoot.

Notes for Benjamin Lillard:
      Benjamin Lillard, the only son of John and Mildred (Jones) Lillard, who lived to maturity, was born in Virginia, circe 1701. He
served in the French and Indian Wars at Fort Duquesne with the Virginia troops under George Washington; also fought in Lord Dunmore's
War under Colonel William Fleming, and later was at Fort Pitt under Cresap.
      In 1724, Benjamin Lillard married Elizabeth Lightfoot, daughter of William Lightfoot. She was the younger sister of Philip Lightfoot who married Mary Warner Lewis, only daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis and his wife Lucy Taliaferro. Elizabeth Lightfoot Lillard was a first cousin of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, of glorious Revolutionary fame, who was the father of General Robert E. Lee. She was also related to Richard Henry Lee, the mover of the Declaration of Independence and the Cicero of the American Revolution; another of her relatives was Francis Lightfoot Lee, the signer of the Declaration of Independence.
      In the "Genealogical Record" compiled ty Benjamin Lillard, of New York, it is stated that his father said: "that the Lees were related to the Lillards through the Lightfoots," and that in the book "The Life of Light Horse Harry Lee," mention is made of Elizabeth
Lightfoot, his cousin, who later married Benjamin Lillard.
      It is from this Colonial Virginia couple that all American Lillards are descended. They resided, after their marriage, in Culpeper County, Virginia, and here it was that all of their children were born.

     
Children of Benjamin Lillard and Elizabeth Lightfoot are:
  i.   William Lillard, born in Culpepper Co, VA; married Anne Nancy ??.
  ii.   Nancy Lillard, born in Culpepper Co, VA; married ?? Garrett.
  iii.   Elizabeth Lillard, born in Culpepper Co, VA; married Lawrence Bradley.
  iv.   Sarah Lillard, born in Culpepper Co, VA; married Augustine Bradley.
  More About Augustine Bradley:
Occupation: Captain

  v.   Benjamin Lillard, born in Culpepper Co, VA; married (1) Frances Crow; married (2) Elizabeth Hensley.
  vi.   Moses Lillard, born in Culpepper Co, VA.
  64 vii.   James Lillard, born 1725 in Culpepper Co, VA; died 1804; married Kesiah Bradley.
  viii.   Thomas Lillard, born 1726 in Culpepper Co, VA; married Anne ??.
  ix.   John Lillard, born 1737 in Culpepper Co, VA; married (1) Susanna Ball; married (2) Anne Moore Thomas.


      132. Robert McCoy Sr
     
Child of Robert McCoy Sr is:
  66 i.   Moses McCoy, married Mary Job.


      134. Abraham Job He married 135. Elizabeth Whitson.

      135. Elizabeth Whitson
     
Child of Abraham Job and Elizabeth Whitson is:
  67 i.   Mary Job, married Moses McCoy.


      144. John Taliaferro, born April 07, 1733 in Caroline Co, VA; died 1821 in Wilkinson Co, GA.

More About John Taliaferro:
Census: 1778, Pittsylvania Co, VA
Occupation: Captain
     
Child of John Taliaferro is:
  72 i.   Charles Taliaferro, born 1776; died 1821; married Sallie Burroughs 1796.


      192. John Cecil, born 1678; died 1759. He was the son of 384. John Cecil. He married 193. Elizabeth Sollers 1718.

      193. Elizabeth Sollers, born 1694 in Calvert Co, MD. She was the daughter of 386. John Sollers and 387. Ann ??.
     
Children of John Cecil and Elizabeth Sollers are:
  96 i.   Samuel W Cecil, born March 23, 1718/19 in Prince George Co, MD; died March 23, 1786 in Dublin, Montgomery Co, MD; married Rebecca White 1750 in Cecil Co, MD.
  ii.   Elizabeth Cecil, born March 15, 1719/20 in Prince George Co, MD; died 1795 in Tazewell Co, VA; married Thomas Witten 1742 in Maryland; born September 10, 1719 in Cecil Co, MD; died 1794 in Tazewell Co, VA.
  Notes for Thomas Witten:
      Thomas Witten was the first white man to take residence in Tazewell County.
      The Wittens were of Teutonic origin, but according to our earliest knowledge, they left Wittenbury in Saxony, migrated to England as early as the 9th Century, and intermarried with the Calverts. They became identified with Anglo-Saxons, who had conquered the Britons and given the name England to ancient Britain. Traditionand documentary evidence reveal that the progenitors of the Wittens in America came from England with the Calverts and settled in Maryland, then Lord Baltimore's colony. In 1766 Thomas Witten, along with Samuel Cecil, both men with large families, moved from Maryland to the region now called Southwest Virginia. Thomas Witten's wife was Elizabeth Cecil (b. 1720), a sister of Samuel. Witten located at what is now the "William Allen Place," on Walkers Creek in the present Giles County, Virginia on the road between Poplar Hill and White Gate in said county. In 1767 Thomas Witten moved on from Walker's Creek with his family to the "Crabapple Orchard" tract on the Clinch River. With him came John Greenup who had married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Witten. When trouble began with the Indians about 1772 or 1773, Thomas Witten and his sons, assisted by neighbors, built a stockaded fort on the Clinch near Pisgah. This was one of the first three forts built in the present bounds of Tazewell County and was a place of refuge for all the inhabitants of the neighborhood when the Indians made hostile incursions to the Clinch settlement.



      216. Adam Trollinger, born April 04, 1708 in Ellmendingen GER; died 1776 in Haw River, NC. He was the son of 432. Hans Michael Drollinger and 433. Eva Klemmer. He married 217. Margareta Valencia Beck January 09, 1730/31 in Dietenhausen GER.

      217. Margareta Valencia Beck, born October 18, 1700 in Weil, GER.
     
Children of Adam Trollinger and Margareta Beck are:
  108 i.   Jacob Heinrich Trollinger, born August 03, 1731 in Dietenhausen GER; died 1798 in Montgomery Co, VA; married (2) Barbara ?? 1761.
  ii.   Eva Catherina Trollinger, born January 09, 1732/33 in Dietenhausen GER.
  iii.   Rosine Trollinger, born May 28, 1735 in Dietenhausen GER; died 1735.
  iv.   Adam Trollinger, born August 09, 1736 in Dietenhausen GER; died 1736.
  v.   Chrisitine Trollinger, born September 11, 1737 in Dietenhausen GER.


      236. Thomas Witten16, born September 10, 1719 in Cecil Co, MD; died 1794 in Tazewell Co, VA. He was the son of 472. Thomas Witten and 473. Suzanne Parker. He married 237. Elizabeth Cecil 1742 in Maryland.

      237. Elizabeth Cecil, born March 15, 1719/20 in Prince George Co, MD; died 1795 in Tazewell Co, VA. She was the daughter of 192. John Cecil and 193. Elizabeth Sollers.

Notes for Thomas Witten:
      Thomas Witten was the first white man to take residence in Tazewell County.
      The Wittens were of Teutonic origin, but according to our earliest knowledge, they left Wittenbury in Saxony, migrated to England as early as the 9th Century, and intermarried with the Calverts. They became identified with Anglo-Saxons, who had conquered the Britons and given the name England to ancient Britain. Traditionand documentary evidence reveal that the progenitors of the Wittens in America came from England with the Calverts and settled in Maryland, then Lord Baltimore's colony. In 1766 Thomas Witten, along with Samuel Cecil, both men with large families, moved from Maryland to the region now called Southwest Virginia. Thomas Witten's wife was Elizabeth Cecil (b. 1720), a sister of Samuel. Witten located at what is now the "William Allen Place," on Walkers Creek in the present Giles County, Virginia on the road between Poplar Hill and White Gate in said county. In 1767 Thomas Witten moved on from Walker's Creek with his family to the "Crabapple Orchard" tract on the Clinch River. With him came John Greenup who had married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Witten. When trouble began with the Indians about 1772 or 1773, Thomas Witten and his sons, assisted by neighbors, built a stockaded fort on the Clinch near Pisgah. This was one of the first three forts built in the present bounds of Tazewell County and was a place of refuge for all the inhabitants of the neighborhood when the Indians made hostile incursions to the Clinch settlement.
     
Children of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil are:
  i.   John W Witten, born 1742; died in Bedford Co, VA.
  Notes for John W Witten:
      John W. Witten, eldest son of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten, married before leaving Maryland. He stopped on the way to Virginia with his father, and located near the Peaks of Otter in Bedford County. Later he moved on to the Clinch River and located at
the place where John C. St.Clair lives, four miles west of the county seat. The log cabin he used for a dwelling is still standing and is perhaps the oldest house in the county. He afterwards returned with his family to Bedford and in 1820 conveyed his valuable farm at the
foot of Paint Lick Mountain to his brother, Thomas Witten, Jr. John Witten has a number of descendents in Bedford and Amherst counties,
but they spell their name "WHITTEN."

  ii.   Elizabeth Witten, born July 17, 1743 in Prince Geo Co, MD; died 1826 in Wayne Co, KY; married John Greenup; born in Maryland; died November 27, 1826 in Wayne Co, KY.
  Notes for Elizabeth Witten:
      Elizabeth Witten, eldest daughter of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten married John Greenup in Maryland before the Wittens moved to Tazewell County, Virginia. She and John remained in Tazewell County only a brief while after the county was organized. In 1801 John Greenup and his family moved to Kentucky where a county was named in the honor of one of his sons. The Greenups became prominent in the affairs of the state.

  iii.   Susanna Witten, born September 16, 1745 in Cecil Co, MD; died 1832 in Fayette Co, PA; married Joshua Dickerson 1763; born March 14, 1739/40 in Maryland; died 1832 in Fayette Co, PA.
  iv.   Philip Witten, born June 08, 1747 in Cecil Co, MD; died 1832 in Monroe Co, OH; married Ruth Dickerson 1771 in Tazewell Co, VA.
  Notes for Philip Witten:
      Philip Witten, son of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten, was born in 1747 in Maryland. At the age of 44 (in 1791) he married Ruth Dickerson and moved to Witten's Landing on the Ohio River. He later moved on to the present Louisville, Kentucky where he bought land.

  More About Philip Witten:
Burial: Louisville, KY

  v.   Jeremiah Witten, born March 30, 1749; died 1845 in Tazewell Co, VA; married (1) Sarah ?? in Kentucky.
  Notes for Jeremiah Witten:
      Jeremiah Witten, son of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten, was born in 1749. He held no official rank as a soldier, but he performed faithful service as a private. It is believed that he was a member of Captain William Russell's company and was with him at the battle of Point Pleasant in the Revolutionary War. After his return from the Lewis Expedition to the mouth of the Kanawha, he performed garrison duty at his father's fort at the Crabapple Orchard, his name being on the roll of the garrison stationed there in October 1774. He married and located his home on Plum Creek, at the place where the late, lamented T. E. George lived. He has many descendents now living in Tazewell County.

  vi.   Keziah Witten, born February 13, 1750/51 in Cecil Co, MD; died May 15, 1837 in Montgomery Co, VA; married John Cecil 1770 in Montgomery Co, VA; born January 24, 1750/51 in Cecil Co, MD; died August 05, 1832 in Montgomery Co, VA.
  More About John Cecil:
Burial: 1832, Farm-Neck Creek, Pulaski Co, VA
Probate: September 1832, Montgomery Co, VA

  vii.   Thomas Witten, Jr, born January 23, 1753 in Cecil Co, MD; died October 06, 1841 in Tazewell Co, VA; married Eleanor Cecil 1775 in Montgomery Co, VA; born May 15, 1755 in Cecil Co, MD; died April 10, 1836 in Tazewell Co, VA.
  Notes for Thomas Witten, Jr:
      Thomas Witten Jr, son of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten gained much local distinction in Tazewell County not only as an Indian fighter and scout, but also as an ensign in the service of the United Colonies in the Revolutionary War. He served as an ensign in one of the companies from Montgomery County that protected the border from savage invasions while the Revolution was in progress. In recognition of his service he was granted a pension of $24.00 per month by the U. S. Government, which he received until death. To show that he was highly esteemed in civil life by his fellow citizens he was elected one of the first members from Tazewell County, along with David Ward to represent the county in the Virginia General Assembly, serving at sessions of 1801-02 and 1802-03. He married his cousin Eleanor Cecil, daughter of Samuel Cecil, and fixed his home at a place where Allen Higgenbotham lives at the east end of Paint Lick Mountain.

  More About Thomas Witten, Jr:
Burial: 1841, Plum Creek, Tazewell Co, VA

  viii.   Ann Witten, born February 09, 1755 in Cecil Co, MD; died September 06, 1843; married William Cecil May 29, 1774 in Montgomery Co, VA; born May 28, 1752 in Cecil Co, MD; died December 11, 1836 in Tazewell Co, VA.
  ix.   William Witten, born February 1757 in Cecil Co, MD; died October 16, 1758 in Cecil Co, MD.
  x.   James Witten, born January 07, 1759 in Cecil Co, MD; died 1830 in Tazewell Co, MD; married Rebecca White Cecil December 25, 1783 in Tazewell Co, VA; born 1766 in Montgomery Co, VA; died Bef. 1848 in KY17.
  Notes for James Witten:
      James Witten, son of Thomas Witten and Elizabeth Cecil Witten, was distinguished while a youth as the first among his equals as a woodsman and hunter; and even before he reached his majority, was recognized as the most skillful and daring scout employed by the military authorities against the Indians. Bickley says: "He was brave and generous to a fault. When any duty requiring bravery, firmness and prudence had to be performed, James Witten was the man invariably chosen, as he possessed these qualities in an eminent degree."
      James married his cousin, Rebecca Cecil, daughter of Samuel Cecil, in 1783, and they made their home in Tazewell County, Virginia on Plum Creek, 3 miles west of the county seat. Very near and in view of the spot where he built his first cabin home, the dust of this pioneer hero is resting beneath the bluegrass sod that grows on soil his strong arms reclaimed from a wilderness waste. His grave is
marked by a rude marble slab.

  118 xi.   William Hanley Witten, born November 07, 1761; died 1824 in Bledsoe Co, TN; married Letitia Laird 1790.


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