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From: "CONSTANCE C THAXTON" <>
Subject: Re: [ATWOOD] Re: Atwood-Bristow Connection
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:02:37 -0400


THANKS GERELYN! That was great of you. Connie

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> Subject: Re: [ATWOOD] Re: Atwood-Bristow Connection
> Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 8:43 PM
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> Here tis, more Bristows than Atwood but thought it might help someone.
> Thanx :) G
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> NOTES ON THE BRISTOW FAMILY
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> Concluded.
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> In this concluding installment of this series, no effort will=20
> be made to present another chain of a particular branch, instead=20
> some scattering bits of information are put into the record,=20
> in the hope that others may be able to connect them up. All
> of these are believed by the writer to be descended from John
> and Michal Bristow, of Middlesex County. A group has been found
> to have lived in Patrick County, Virginia, who seemed to have=20
> left there for various places in Kentucky. As their descendants=20
> continued to live in that State or moved further West, this infor-
> mation may prove helpful to them, as it may have been overlooked. =20
> Some of the names here presented are identifiable as having been=20
> heads of families further West. Two powers of attorney, recorded
> in Patrick County are believed to be of particular interest, to these
> descendants.
> Of these, that of William Bristow, Leven Bristow and Nancy Bristow,
> said to be of "Cumberland County, Kentucky" and heirs of William
> Bristow, deceased, to James Bristow, "our brother", recorded in=20
> D. B. 4, p. 440 largely speaks for itself. It merely authorizes=20
> James to sell lands in Patrick County, collect debts etc., belonging
> to the grantors. Possibly it does not prove, but it strongly suggests
> that William, Levin, and James Bristow, were sons of William Bristow,
> then dead (July 20, 1814, - date of instrument) and that Nancy was the
> wife of one of them - probably Leven, as will be commented upon later.
> She failed to sign it, but was mentioned in the body, while Nathan
> Culver, not mentioned in the body did sign it. This invites the
> speculation that there was a deceased sister in this family and that
> her Nathan was her son.
> The other, apparentlytouching the same group, is of such importance,
> that it is quoted in full, it is recorded in D. B. 4 p. 446;
> "To all whom these presents may concern:
> Know ye, that we, Thomas Bristow, Peyton Bristow, Henry Bristow and
> James Atwood, of the County of Preble, and State of Ohio, and Jasper
> Bristow of Shelby County, (Kentucky) also Sary Bristow, widow of=20
> Benjamin Bristow, Deceased, and her children, James Bristow, Joseph
> Lewis, John Harris, Sarah Bristow, Junior and Samuel Bristow, heirs of
> Benjamin Bristow, Deceased, all legal heirs of William Bristow,
> Deceased, have made, constituted and ordained and appointed our
> brother* James Bristow our true and lawful attorney for us and in
> our names to sell, made deed of conveyance to all lands in which we
> have any claim lying in Patrick County and State of Virginia, and=20
> settle and transact all our business as lying in s'd Patrick County,
> collect debts, give receipts, etc., and all lawful acts in our names
> as tho we were personally present, hereby ratifying whatever acts our
> s'd attorney may lawfully do, in testimony whereof, we have hereunto
> set our hands and seals, this ninth day of January, in the year of
> our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. (fourteen crossed
> out).
> Signed Thomas Bristow (Seal)
> Peyton Bristow (Seal)
> James Atwood (Seal)
> Henry Bristow (Seal)
> Jasper Bristow (Seal)
> Sarah Bristow (Seal)
> Joseph Lewis (Seal)
> John Harris (Seal)
> Sary Bristow (Seal)
> Samuel Bristow (Seal)
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> This was acknowledged by Thomas, Peyton, and Henry Bristow, and James
> Atwood in Preble County, Ohio, and by Jasper Bristow, in Shelby County,
> Kentucky, but the certificates do not show where the remainder acknow-
> ledged it. It is assumed that they may have personally appeared in
court,
> in Patrick County, Virginia, and its execution by them proven in that
way.
> The only connecting link, if any between these groups is one of the
> Williams, naturally, the younger unless there were three of that name,
> grandfather, son and grandson. This instrument suggests that a William
> Bristow, then dead (Jan 9th, 1816) had a family of children composed of
> sons, Thomas, Peyton, Henry, Jasper and Benjamin (husband of "Sary", and
> then deceased) and a deceased daughter, the mother of James Atwood, and
> that the deceased Benjamin left sons James and Samuel, and two deceased
> daughters, one the mother of Joseph Lewis and another the mother of John
> Harris. Of these the former may have been Margaret, who married Isaac
> Lewis, as will appear later.
> Other deeds on record in Patrick County indicate that the wife of one
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> the Williams was a Martha, and in the adjoining county of Franklin a
> marriage between a William Bristow and Martha Beck took place Oct 3rd,=20
> 1796*, and another was found between Benjamin Bristow and Sarah Miles,
> which took place Dec 7, 1796, possibly she was the "Sary" mentioned
> above, but this Benjamin may have had a prior marriage as is suggested
> later,
> A Levin Bristow heads up a chain of descendants, of whom, the only ones
> known to the writer, are in Oklahoma. Correspondence with his grandson,
> the late Adrain J. Bristow, of Coalgate, disclosed that Levin or
Eleven,=20
> (in the deed it is Levin) born in Virginia, emigrated to Adair County
> and later to what is not Clinton Co., Kentucky, and died in May 1873,
> aged 99 years He was therefore born in 1774. He states that the name
> was "Eleven" because he was the eleventh child or son. The remaining
> children have not been identified. Adrain J. offers William and Benjamin
> which are likely, but adds Cornelius and Evington, names unfamiliar among
> Bristows. He also gave as the father of Leven or Eleven a Benjamin,
> which differs from the deductions above. Some of his statements were
> found vague and it si likely he was in error as to some details, - he
> was then 70 years old and away from the location of the records.
> Strangely the story of a son named Eleven, born in Middlesex County
> and understood to have been of his close kin, was told the writer, when
> a boy by a member of the family long since dead. According to Adrian
> J. Leven married Nancy Irwin, wo may have been the Nancy of the first
> power of attorney. Leven Bristow had three sons, Balard, Francis
> Marion and Richard P. This Francis Marion Bristow was born in Adair
> County, Kentucky and died in Mo., in 1903, and left sons, Adrain
> Jackson and Robert Bristow.
> According to his descendant, Mrs. William T. Mastin, nee Emma Dunn,=20
> there was a Rev. Jasper Bristow, who had a large family, and lived in
> Shelby County, Kentucky where the power of attorney located Jasper.
> He must have been the same individual. Due to absence from his files
> the writer canno furnish in this article any of the names of the=20
> children of Rev. Jasper Bristow. If the deductions above are correct,
> however, he traced to the family group which lived in Patrick Co., VA.
> Correspondence with Wiliam H. Bristow, formerly of Harrisburg, Pa.,
> and then connected with the State Department of Education, there, but
> born in Mo., shows that his great-grandfather was Benjamin Bristow,
> who married a Miss Miles in 1790. He quotes nine children as follows-
> (1) Margaret, b.1791, who married Isaac Lewis, note the Joseph Lewis
> referred to above; (2) William, b. 1793; (3) James, b. 1795, m. 1st
> Sarah Prothers, 2nd, Katherine Kesler, 3rd Katherine Youtsey, 4th
> Elizabeth Statton; (4) Samuel; (5) Elizabeth; (6) Ann; (7) Miles;
> (8) Hannah; and (9) Sarah. Due to the fact that some of these
> children were born before the marriage of Benjamin Bristow and=20
> Sarah Miles, it is suggested that the former may have had a prior
> marriage.
> Correspondence with Miss Mary Said, a descendant, shows the following
> children born to a William and Martha Bristow, who could have been
> the William Bristow, who married Martha Beck in Franklin County, VA.,
> Oct 3rd, 1796. However, the William referred to was born 5 Feb 1771
> and d. 18 Dec 1834, and Martha was born 16 Dec 1776 and d. 23 Sep 1857.
> Their children were (1) Edward, b. 17 Aug 1797; (2) Sarah, b. 19 Dec
> 1799, d. 19 Dec 1830; (3) Peyton, b. 1 July 1801, d. 1861; (4) William,
> b. 31 Jan 1803, d. 29 Feb. 1829; (5) Thomas, b. Dec 1804, d. 2 Aug
> 1853; (6) Clement; b. 11 Ag 1806, d. 11 OCt. 1808; (7) Susannah,=20
> b 2 Feb 1808, d 28 Nov 1846; (*) Leven, b. 29 Dec 1809 d 1861; (9)=20
> Nancy, b. 29 Aug 1811, d. 15 Oct 1882; (10) Margaret, b. 8 Mar 1813,=20
> d. 2 Aug 1852; (11) James, b. 26 Aug 1815, d. 5 Apr 1832; (12) John=20
> b. 30 Oct 1817, d 13 May 1850; (13) Martha, b 28 May 1820, d 16 Jan=20
> 1839. Note the presence of this family such names as Sarah, Payton
> (Peyton), Thomas, Levin and James, which are similar to some referred
> to as associated with the Patrick County, VA., group.
> A reference to a Benjamin Bristow was found by the writer, who probably
> belonged to this group, to have been in Halifax County, Virginia, in
> 1817, as he gave a power of attney to some one to represent him in
> applying for a pension, for service in he then, last or latest war.
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