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     Elizabeth Palmer was born circa 1773 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.¹ She married Joshua Todd, son of Caleb (II) Todd Sr. and Margaret Catherine Williams, on 3 March 1792 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.¹

Elizabeth Palmer died between 1840 and 1850 at Hopkins Co., Kentucky, USA.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Joshua was born in Northampton Co PA about 1765 based on the 1810 census indicating he was over 45 and his wife being 26-45. This is a few years older than the 1769 birth estimated by earlier historians. Joshua married Elizabeth Palmer on 3 Mar 1792 in Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1773 in Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. She died in 1840/1850 in Hopkins County, Kentucky, USA. Joshua listed on tax records of Madison County KY 1801-1809, on the 1810 census and the 1811 tax list. In 1809 was listed on Muddy Creek. He was on the 1820 census of Hopkins County, KY. Joshua on the 1810 census for Madison Co and the 1820 for Hopkins County, KY Census page 267: 120101-00001. Joshua, settled in Hopkins County, KY and bought land from Jonathan Todd (assumed son of Joshua's brother Caleb b 1758 thru Nathan Fox for $1, representing a close family tie between Caleb and Joshua, probably brothers. Will dated 03-Mar-1826 and recorded Oct 1826, Hopkins County, KY named wife, Elizabeth; sons, William, Joshua, John, and Solomon, and daus,Amy Gamblin and Sally Oldham. Marriage bond date was 03-Mar-1792 in Rowan County, NC. They moved to Madison County, KY bef 1800." at Citation.²

     Editha Todd was born on 10 June 1793 at Georgia, USA.¹ She married Thomas Hogg Myres circa 1819 at Scott Co., Kentucky, USA,
;
Her 1st husband.² Editha Todd married John Butler on 28 December 1847 at Indiana, USA,
;
Her 2nd husband; his 2nd wife.³
Editha Todd died on 2 March 1867 at Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana, USA, at age 73; McMurtry says d. 1865; grave marker seen on FAG says d. 1867.^1,4
Editha Todd was buried after 2 March 1867 at Mowrey Cemetery, Clay Township, Decatur Co., Indiana, USA; From Find A Grave:
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]: "Editha Todd Myres husband died in 1845 and it seems she remarried to John Butler as they are on the 1850 Census together with her two children John and Editha Myres. Editha's name is spelled Enditha on the 1850 Census. If you need more info please contact Lesley email: lesley66@charter.net" at Citation.¹

     Thomas Hogg Myres was born circa 1791 at Maryland, USA.¹ He married Editha Todd, daughter of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, circa 1819 at Scott Co., Kentucky, USA,
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Her 1st husband.¹
Thomas Hogg Myres died in 1845 at Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana, USA.¹

     John Butler was born on 5 June 1788 at Kentucky, USA.¹ He married Basha Elizabeth Griffith in 1808 at Kentucky, USA,
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His 1st wife.² John Butler married Editha Todd, daughter of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, on 28 December 1847 at Indiana, USA,
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Her 2nd husband; his 2nd wife.¹
John Butler died on 22 August 1860 at Decatur Co., Indiana, USA, at age 72.¹
John Butler was buried after 22 August 1860 at Mowrey Cemetery, Clay Township, Decatur Co., Indiana, USA; From Find A Grave:
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]: "Editha Todd Myres husband died in 1845 and it seems she remarried to John Butler as they are on the 1850 Census together with her two children John and Editha Myres. Editha's name is spelled Enditha on the 1850 Census. If you need more info please contact Lesley email: lesley66@charter.net" at Citation.³

     Basha Elizabeth Griffith was born in 1775 at Kentucky, USA.¹ She married John Butler in 1808 at Kentucky, USA,
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His 1st wife.¹
Basha Elizabeth Griffith was buried in 1842 at Old Geneva Cemetery, Queensville, Jennings Co., Indiana, USA; From Find A Grave:
Basha Elizabeth Griffith died in 1842 at Jennings Co., Indiana, USA.¹

     Abel Albert Todd was born on 10 February 1795 at Georgia, USA.¹ He married Margaret Blair on 28 March 1815 at Harrison Co., Kentucky, USA,
;
His 1st wife.² Abel Albert Todd married Lydia A. Glover on 9 March 1834 at Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana, USA,
;
His 2nd wife.³
Abel Albert Todd died on 27 May 1858 at Franklin Township, Washington Co., Iowa, USA, at age 63.¹

     Margaret Blair was born in 1795 at Harrison Co., Kentucky, USA.¹ She married Abel Albert Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, on 28 March 1815 at Harrison Co., Kentucky, USA,
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His 1st wife.¹
Margaret Blair died in 1833 at Decatur Co., Indiana, USA.¹

     Lydia A. Glover was born in 1800 at Woodford Co., Kentucky, USA.¹ She married Abel Albert Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, on 9 March 1834 at Milford, Decatur Co., Indiana, USA,
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His 2nd wife.¹
Lydia A. Glover died in September 1873 at Washington Co., Iowa, USA.¹

     Sarah Bentley Todd was born on 27 January 1798 at Georgia, USA.^1,2 She married Lyman Monroe in 1816 at Scott Co., Kentucky, USA.³

Sarah Bentley Todd died on 16 January 1862 at Madison, Jefferson Co., Indiana, USA, at age 63.^1,2
Sarah Bentley Todd was buried after 16 January 1862 at Monroe Cemetery, Brooksburg, Jefferson Co., Indiana, USA; From Find A Grave:

     Lyman Monroe was born on 4 March 1792 at Westport, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA.^1,2 He married Sarah Bentley Todd, daughter of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, in 1816 at Scott Co., Kentucky, USA.¹

Lyman Monroe died on 30 January 1860 at Jefferson Co., Indiana, USA, at age 67.^1,2
Lyman Monroe was buried after 30 January 1860 at Monroe Cemetery, Brooksburg, Jefferson Co., Indiana, USA; From Find A Grave:

     Samuel Bentley Todd was born on 26 February 1802 at Georgia, USA.^1,2 He married Elizabeth Callahan on 12 November 1822 at Harrison Co., Kentucky, USA,
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His 1st wife.³ Samuel Bentley Todd married Ruth Belville Ridlen on 27 August 1846 at Decatur Co., Indiana, USA,
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His 2nd wife.⁴
Samuel Bentley Todd died on 26 February 1876 at Willow Hill, Jasper Co., Illinois, USA, at age 74.^1,2
Samuel Bentley Todd was buried after 26 February 1876 at Todd Cemetery, Willow Hill, Jasper Co., Illinois, USA; From Find A Grave:
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]: "On the July 22 1870 Jasper County, Illinois Census for Willow Hill - Louisanna Ping is living with Samuel and Ruth Todd she is their Grand Daughter. Their Daughter Amanda Todd PIng and Son in law Silas Ping are both passed away by 1866 leaving 7 children behind but only Louisiana is living with these GrandParents. Niether Samuel or his wife Ruth Todd were found on the 1880 Census which confirms there death were before 1880. If you need more info please contact Lesley email: lesley66@charter.net" at Citation.¹

     Elizabeth Callahan was born circa 1806 at Kentucky, USA.¹ She married Samuel Bentley Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, on 12 November 1822 at Harrison Co., Kentucky, USA,
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His 1st wife.¹
Elizabeth Callahan died between June 1842 and August 1846 at Decatur Co., Indiana, USA.¹

     Ruth Belville Ridlen was born on 29 January 1822 at Claremont Co., Ohio, USA.^1,2 She married Samuel Bentley Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Sarah Bentley, on 27 August 1846 at Decatur Co., Indiana, USA,
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His 2nd wife.¹
Ruth Belville Ridlen died on 20 January 1879 at Willow Hill, Jasper Co., Illinois, USA, at age 56.^1,2
Ruth Belville Ridlen was buried after 20 January 1879 at Todd Cemetery, Willow Hill, Jasper Co., Illinois, USA; From Find A Grave:
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]: "On the July 22 1870 Jasper County, Illinois Census for Willow Hill - Louisanna Ping is living with Samuel and Ruth Todd she is their Grand Daughter. Their Daughter Amanda Todd PIng and Son in law Silas Ping are both passed away by 1866 leaving 7 children behind but only Louisiana is living with these GrandParents. Niether Samuel or his wife Ruth Todd were found on the 1880 Census which confirms there death were before 1880. If you need more info please contact Lesley email: lesley66@charter.net" at Citation.³

     Unknown (?) married Caleb Todd, son of Benjamin Todd Sr. and Sarah Lydia Griffin,
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His 1st wife.¹

     John Todd was born between 1770 and 1780.¹ He married Unknown (?) between 1790 and 1800 at Meriwether Co., Georgia, USA.¹

John Todd died between 1835 and 1840 at Meriwether Co., Georgia, USA.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "John Todd was born 1770-80 per the 1820 and 1830 census of Putnam and Henry Co, GA. He was married prior to 1800 based on the birth of his oldest son in 1800.
     "It is conceivable that he was the John Todd of Burke County, GA since he had a son in 1802 making him eligible for two draws in the 1805 land lottery, but we have no evidence to support his conjecture. The only unidentified John Todd in the 1805 land lottery with two draws is a John Todd in Burke Co GA. What we do know is that by 1812, he had settled on the Putnam side of the Putnam-Jones County border and recorded a deed to his minor sons Benjamin G. Todd b 1800 and Levi Todd b 1810 . (John Todd, Deed, Putnam Co. Ga, Deed book 1812 to 1814, page 86) “To all whom these presents shall come; I, John Todd of the county aforesaid for and in consideration of the love, good will, and affection which I have and do bear towards my loving sons Benjamin Todd and Levi Todd have given and granted and by these present doth fully give and grant unto the aforesaid Benjamin and Levi, their heirs, executrix, admrs, etc. all and singular, my estate now being in my possession, that is one chestnut sorrel mare, one bright sorrel filly, one horse colt, etc, stock of cattle consisting of six grown cows and 2 heifers, and stock of hogs and one loom, 2 bee hives, and household furniture. To have and to hold the said property to them and their heirs forever. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this August 18, 1812. Signed, John Todd recorded November 3, 1812 witnessed by: Benjamin Todd David Clark Peyton Holt, J.P.
     "This strange arrangement may have been caused by a need to create a legal separation from his property to avoid creditors.
     "His son Benjamin was born 1800, son Levi was born 1810-1812, son John was born 1810-1812 and son William A. was born about 1817.
     "Between 1820 and 1830, he moved to Henry County. In 1835, he moved to Meriwether County selling land he had acquired in Henry County on Shoal Creek. Levi Todd was a witness.
     "In 1836, Levi Todd married Elizabeth Keith in Meriwether County. That same year, John recorded a deed documenting in Meriwether County attesting to his witnessing of a deed in Jones County along the Jones-Putnam Count border back in 1821.
     "He probably died in Meriwether County.
     "Male DNA for two descendants of John Todd b 1770-80 matched the DNA for Benjamin Todd 1778-1855 and the other descendants of the Rowan County Todds, proving that John and Benjamin were members of that family through their fathers’ lines. Family Finder DNA showed that John and Benjamin were brothers and probable brothers to William and Reuben and to Abel b 1795 and his siblings.
"Sources:
     "The census records of 1820 Putnam Co, 1830 Henry Co and 1840 Meriwether Co show consistent ages for his sons. Putnam Co: John Todd 210101-12110, Henry Co Census 1830, p 205, Benjamin G. Todd 220001-00001; page 235, John Todd, 00120001- 00010001; Meriwether Co 1840: Benjamin G Todd 0021001-210001 , Levi Todd 1000 1-0000 1, John Todd 0000 1-0, William Todd 1000 1-1100 01
     "Henry County, GA: Deed Book G, p 257, John Todd Sr sold to Henry Hubbard 19 Jan 1835 73 acres on the south side of Lot # 224, lying on the waters of Shoal Creek, Witn: Levi Todd, William B. Stanfield JP. Recorded 8 Jun 1835
     "Meriwether County Marriages, Levi Todd and Elizabeth Keith, 23 Oct 1836; Georgia, Putnam County Stanford, Levi M. married Todd, Sarah on 20 Mar 1821 in Putnam County,Georgia (Could this be another of the daughters of John Todd of Putnam Co?)" At Citation.¹

     Unknown (?) married John Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Unknown (?), between 1790 and 1800 at Meriwether Co., Georgia, USA.¹

     Benjamin Todd was born in 1778 at North Carolina, USA.¹ He married Rebecca? Montgomery? circa 1798 at Georgia, USA,
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His 1st wife.¹ Benjamin Todd married Charity Kilby on 18 July 1841 at Jones Co., Georgia, USA,
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His 2nd wife.¹
Benjamin Todd died on 10 January 1855 at Jones Co., Georgia, USA.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Benjamin Todd was born in North Carolina about 1778 according to the 1850 census record. He came with his parents from Rowan Co to Wilkes Co GA as a young boy, sometime prior to 1786 when Caleb is listed as a neighbor on a deed and possibly prior to 1781 when his assumed brother William was born.
     "He married about 1798 based on the birth of his first son in 1799. Bucker family researchers had assumed that his being the executor of the estate of David Montgomery in 1810 implied that Benjamin's first wife was a Montgomery. They have assumed this wife was a Rebecca Montgomery but there is no evidence as to how this inference was made.
     "Benjamin had come of age living next door to the Montgomery family . Both Caleb Todd and the Montgomery family owned land stretching between the Clark's Creek and Fishing Creek watersheds. David Montgomery Sr died in 1791 and his estate refers to David, James, Mathew and a daughter who had married Robert Montogmery. There was no reference to a daughter Rebecca. James Montgomery died in 1794, just a few years later, and Rebecca and David Montgomery were administrators, presumably the widow and brother of James Montgomery. Caleb Todd and Thomas Brown (his neighbors) did the inventory. The estate was distributed to Rebecca, Ester, James and John S. Montgomery.
     "Then in 1810, David Montgomery died and his estate was administered by Benjamin Todd. Given that one researcher has listed the death date of Rebecca Montgomery Todd in 14 Sept 1839 Jones Co GA, we can not discount that Benjamin's wife COULD have been a Rebecca Montgomery but we can find no documentary evidence of this.
     "In any event, In 1799, he appears in the tax list of Wilkes County GA for the first time, being taxed for 60 acres which were originally granted to Caleb Todd, Benjamin's father. By 1804, he has acquired 187 acres of Caleb’s land and Caleb has disappeared from the tax lists, presumably having gone to Madison County Kentucky where most of his kin had settled. Benjamin was still on the tax lists in 1809 and departed for Jones Co between 1809 and 1812. By 1816, only a George Hughs was taxed on land that had been originally granted to K Todd. George was presumably some relative of the Robert Hughes who owned 210 acres on Fishing Creek adjacent to K. Todd. In any event, by 1812, Benjamin had moved to the Jones/Putnam County border where he remained for the rest of his life. By 1812, Benjamin and his brother John Todd b 1770-1780 had settled along the border between Jones and Putname County. In 1812, Benjamin Todd bought Parcel 183 just south of the boundary line. Also, in 1812, Benjamin was a witness to a strange deed recorded by John Todd of Putnam County transferring ownership of John’s livestock to his “beloved sons Benjamin and Levi”. This type of deed was traditionaly used as a legal maneuver to avoid having one's estate taken by creditors. In 1816, Lot 169 in Putnam County, a parcel immediately to the NW of Benjamin Todd’s land was sold to his brother John Todd by J. F. Martin/Martain. Benjamin and his son John B. were on the 1816 Jones County tax list, Capt Green's District 378) Benjamin would have been 33 or 34 years old when he come to Jones Co. Then in 1817, Benjamin bought Lot 170, an adjacent parcel just south of Lot 169, and in 1821 and 1823 acquired Lot 184, just to the west of Lot 169. Benjamin was referred to as Benjamin Todd Sr in the 1823 deed reflecting that Benjamin G. Todd b 1800 son of John Todd b 1770-1780 had turned 21 between 1821 and 1823. By 1823, John and Benjamin Todd owned over a square mile of land (800 acres) with Benjamin Todd owning adjoining parcels on the south, south east and southwest of John Todd. By the 1830s, additional lands were acquired. Benjamin’s son, William and William‘s wife Charity somehow acquired interest in Lots 162 and 163 which they sold to John Todd, William’s brother, and to Benjamin Todd, William’s father - each one getting about 130 acres. Benjamin received the 50 acres that straddled the county border. John seems to have acquired another 120 acres on his own further south in Lot 161 (though no deed is recorded). Then in 1833, Benjamin sold the land he got from William and Charity to his son-in-law Thomas Vincent. Then, in 1839, John sold to Benjamin Todd 80 acres in Lot 162 he got from William and 121 acres in Lot 161 he had obtained on his own. Then, in 1847, John sold 100 acres to Joseph Messer which probably included the 50 acres in Lot 163 he had gotten from William.
     "In February of 1855 Benjamin was struck by a falling tree and killed. He was over seventy-five years old and had outlived all three of his sons. "An abstract of Benjamin's will shows the following in Will BK 1851-64, dated 10-Sep-1853 and recorded 10-Jan-1855: I give to my beloved wife Charity Todd during her natural life and aft death, to be returned to my estate and equally divided among my children and their legal representatives, one hundred one and a fourth acres of land being one half of lot number (not known) in Dist 6 of formerly Baldwin, but now Jones County, being the place where I now reside with all the improvements thereon. Also one Negro woman named Harriet, abt twenty six or seven years of age, and a Negro girl named Louisa, abt thirteen years old, and one Negro fellow named Jesse, abt fifty years old, two cows and calves, two sows and pigs, two beds and bedsteads, furniture, one loom and gearing, and as many of the bedclothes as she may wish, etc. "His heirs are listed as his wife Charity, children and gchildren; Mary Green and children, Susan and Richmond Buckner, Rebecca and Thomas Vincent, Elizabeth and Reason Buckner, the wives and children of John B Todd and Benjamin A Todd. From his will one may reasonably assume that any children of his son, William Lewis Todd, who had predeceased him bef 1833, were either dead or had disappeared. William's orphans drew land in the 1832 Lottery BK D, though a widow was not listed. One of those was possibly the William L Todd 17, though named as a Vincent listed with Benjamin Todd on 1850 census.
     "Note: Previous family historians were led to believe that Benjamin Todd was son of John Todd of Clinton, Jones Co GA and that this John was father of Benjamin and Levi Todd of Putnam Co and that Benjamin bought land from the John Todd of Clinton, Jones Co. See the discussion under Benjamin's brother, John Todd b1770-80, to sort out this confusion.
     "Deed References: Holman Freeman to Benjamin Todd, 8 Apr 1812, 10 Feb 1819, K p 119, 202 acres, 9th District, Lot 183 This Indenture made 8 April 1812..Holman Freeman of Wilkes Co and Benjamin Todd of Jones County..$300..202-1/2 acres 9th District Lot 183 bounded on SW by Lot 182 and on NE by lot 184 recorded 10 Feb 1819. Putnam: This indenture made 5 Jan 1821..Willis Stringer of said co and Benjamin Todd of Jones Co..$600..101-1/4acres..10th District..one half of Lot 184. bounded by a part of Lot 191 and on the North by the other half of said Lot Recorded 22 Oct 1822 Putnam County: This Indenture made ..6 Oct 1823..Thomas Hathorn of County of Putnam and Benjamin Todd Senr of the County of Jones..$600... half square Lot or parcel..10th District Lot 184..the NW half of said Lot bounded on the NW by Lot 185 and on the SE by the other half of the original Lot..101-1/4 acres recorded 22 April 1824
     "Notes from Lin Cornelius: "The Todds and Buckners were closely associated in Rowan County, NC and continued aft going to GA. Richmond Buckner, who m. Benjamin's dau, Susannah, in Jones County, GA was a cousin of Reason Buckner, who m. her sis, Elizabeth, and to further strengthen family ties, Reason's sis, Elizabeth, m. Benjamin Allen Todd in Monroe County, GA." Buckner researchers have Benjamin m. to Rebecca Montgomery, d/o David and Mary. These Todds went from Rowan County, NC to GA with the Buckner and Avery families. A Fortunate Drawer (winner) in Baldwin (now Jones) County's LandLottery; section 10; 202 acres The Todd House, built in the early 1800s between Union Hill and Devils Half Acre, was destroyed sometime after 1957. Based on the statements of area residents who knew the house it was built in the same style as the Mathis House just down the road. The Mathis House is now (1999) much modified from its original form and used as a deer check station. Benjamin Todd appears on the 1832 Land Lottery list Bk D. Unfortunately, his first wife's name does not appear on any deeds and a record of the marriage has not yet been found. A very strong clue, however, to her identity was that Benjamin was named Administer of the 1810 Wilkes Co GA estate of David A. Montgomery. Benjamin Todd was appointed May 7,1810. Buckner researchers have named her Rebecca Montgomery, and she may have well been so.
     "He was married a second time to Miss Charity Kilby on July 18, 1841. Miss Kilby was born in South Carolina and was unable to read or write.She remarried after Benjamin's death, a decent year later to John Harrup on 3-16-1856. It is reported by Anita Steele that there was a bible record of Benjamin's family in a bible having belonged originally to John B.Todd. Among her Aunt's partially typed and partially handwritten notes is this: "from Bible owned by Jn B Todd, published by H.E. Phinney, Cooperstown, NY, 1829" listing two additional sons of Benjamin and Rebecca, who died in infancy. [We do not now know who owns this bible.] From his will one may reasonably assume that any children of his son William Lewis Todd, who had predeceased him before 1833, were either dead or had disappeared. William's orphans drew land in the 1832 lottery book D, though a widow was not listed. One of those was possibly the William L. Todd, age 17 (though named as a Vincent) listed with Benj. Todd on 1850 census. After Benjamin's death and his wife's remarriage, the house was occupied by the Vincent family (his daughter Rebecca had marriedThomas Vincent). By the time an 1879 map was drawn of the area, the house had become known as the Driscol House. Lorena Spillers notes, via Anita Steel: "Benjamin TODD, born 1778 Rowan County, NC, died 1855 Jones County,GA; married (1st) 1798 Wilkes County, GA, Rebecca Montgomery, born1775-1785 NC, died 1830 Jones County, GA. Benjamin married (2nd) 1841Charity Kilby, who married (2nd) John Harris. Rebecca was the mother of all of Benjamin's children. Children: John B., 1799 WilkesCounty, GA; Mary, 1800-1801 Wilkes County, GA; Susan, 1805 WilkesCounty, GA; William Lewis, 1807 Wilkes County, GA; Rebecca, 1812 Jones County, GA; and Elizabeth, 1814 Jones County, GA." MONTGOMERY, DAVID dec'd. est. Benj. Todd, admr. Received of Mrs.Montgomery pay for 13 acres land. Mar. 1, 1813. The book "History of Jones County Georgia" by Carolyn White Williams contains an article on the Todd and Buckner families who lived in the Union Hill area straddling the Putnam/Jones border in the first half of the nineteenth century. There is no author credited for this article, and Ms. Williams' house burned after the book was published, losing all her notes forever, so we are completely at a loss as to who wrote the piece or what their sources were. I have come to believe that the source for the Williams' article was a Buckner descendant -most likely the late Lorena Martin Spillers. (See discussion under Benjamin's brother John Todd to sort out the various John Todd's.) Ms. Spillers' did most of her research from 1925 through 1975, and the Williams' book was published in 1957. The assertions in Williams' book are that Benjamin Todd was the son of John Todd Jr and his wife Margaret Erwin, and that Benjamin had a brother named Levi Todd. Further it states that John Jr was the son of John Todd Sr of Rowan County, North Carolina, and his wife, Sarah, who also had a son they named Giles Todd. This is in some conflict with research by other Todd investigators. Annette B. Todd has a rather extensive webpage (at the Family TreeMaker website) offering scads of documentation proving that John Todd Sr and his wife Sarah (they theorize her maiden name was Giles), who were the parents of John Jr and Giles, could not have been the grandparents of Benjamin Todd of Jones County, Georgia. Further, the Wautauga County NC website has a section quoting a work on prominent families of Wautauga wherein a Todd family bible contains the following: "From the old Todd family Bible, printed in Edinborough by Mark andCharles Kerr, MDCCXCI, it is learned that James Todd was born July 31,1757, and Margaret Erwin, his wife, October 14, 1759. These were married March 11, 1784; and that John Sharp Todd, father of James, was born December 11, 1724, and his wife, Nancy, was born June 7, 1739. James Todd died November 17 1814. He was a soldier of the Revolution,and Mrs. Lizzie McGhee, of Boone, has the old powder-horn he used inthat war." Owing to the anonymous nature of the article's author, the excellent work done by Annette B. Todd on the John Todd Sr line, and the bible quoted by the Wautaga website, the assertions in the Williams book concerning the earlier generations of Todds (those before they arrived in Georgia) must be considered highly suspect, and I believe them to be entirely false. Todd researcher Lorena Martin Spillers concluded that Benjamin's father John was descended from the Joseph Todd line out of Eling,England. She did not cite source notes. See the discussion under John Todd b 1770-1780 for clarification of the five different John Todds confused with being one John Todd and with being the father of Benjamin.
     "[WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA] LOTTERY OF 1803 EXPLANATORY The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the Creek Indiansin a treaty at Fort Wilkinson, June 16, 1802, and included "theTerritory south of the Oconee and Altamaha rivers". This land wasdivided into three counties, Wayne, Wilkinson and Baldwin. The lots inWayne consisted of 490 acres each, those in Baldwin and Wilkinson 2021/2 acres each, three thousand two hundred and forty acres reservedfor a town to be called Milledgeville. Those entitled to draw were every free white male twenty-one years andupwards, and an inhabitant of the state twelve months immediatelypreceding the passage of this act, who had paid tax, one draw; everyfree white male having a wife and one or more legitimate children, twodraws; all widows having legitimate child or children, two draws; allfamilies of orphans having no parents living, two draws. No mention is made of military service in this act, and no provisionis made for soldiers of any war. Georgia, Wilkes Co. We the Justices of the Inferior Court viz:Benjamin Porter, James Anthony, Thomas Mounger and Richard Worshamhaving met the 13th day of June 1803 at the court house agreeable tothe Governors Proclamation for the purpose of receiving the names ofthe inhabitants of the county and the draws to which they are entitledby an Act of the General Assembly passed May 11, last, Do herebycertify that the persons hereinafter named are entitled to the numberof draws designated by the figures one and two opposite their names,viz: James Todd, 1 (pg 302 of Wilkes bk) Joseph Todd, 1 (pg 303 of Wilkes bk) Elizabeth Todd, Wid 2 (pg 303 of Wilkes bk) John Todd Jr, 1 (pg 310 of Wilkes bk) John Todd Sr, 2 (pg 313 of Wilkes bk) Benjamin Todd, 2 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk) Caleb Todd, 2 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk) Aron Todd, 1 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk)"

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7.     Title: Last Will and Testament
Author: Benjamin Todd
Publication: Name: Written 10 Sep 1853 in Jones Co GA, Recorded in Will Book D ofsame; at Citation.¹

     Rebecca? Montgomery? was born circa 1775.¹ She married Benjamin Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Unknown (?), circa 1798 at Georgia, USA,
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His 1st wife.¹
Rebecca? Montgomery? died on 14 September 1839 at Jones Co., Georgia, USA.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Benjamin Todd was born in North Carolina about 1778 according to the 1850 census record. He came with his parents from Rowan Co to Wilkes Co GA as a young boy, sometime prior to 1786 when Caleb is listed as a neighbor on a deed and possibly prior to 1781 when his assumed brother William was born.
     "He married about 1798 based on the birth of his first son in 1799. Bucker family researchers had assumed that his being the executor of the estate of David Montgomery in 1810 implied that Benjamin's first wife was a Montgomery. They have assumed this wife was a Rebecca Montgomery but there is no evidence as to how this inference was made.
     "Benjamin had come of age living next door to the Montgomery family . Both Caleb Todd and the Montgomery family owned land stretching between the Clark's Creek and Fishing Creek watersheds. David Montgomery Sr died in 1791 and his estate refers to David, James, Mathew and a daughter who had married Robert Montogmery. There was no reference to a daughter Rebecca. James Montgomery died in 1794, just a few years later, and Rebecca and David Montgomery were administrators, presumably the widow and brother of James Montgomery. Caleb Todd and Thomas Brown (his neighbors) did the inventory. The estate was distributed to Rebecca, Ester, James and John S. Montgomery.
     "Then in 1810, David Montgomery died and his estate was administered by Benjamin Todd. Given that one researcher has listed the death date of Rebecca Montgomery Todd in 14 Sept 1839 Jones Co GA, we can not discount that Benjamin's wife COULD have been a Rebecca Montgomery but we can find no documentary evidence of this.
     "In any event, In 1799, he appears in the tax list of Wilkes County GA for the first time, being taxed for 60 acres which were originally granted to Caleb Todd, Benjamin's father. By 1804, he has acquired 187 acres of Caleb’s land and Caleb has disappeared from the tax lists, presumably having gone to Madison County Kentucky where most of his kin had settled. Benjamin was still on the tax lists in 1809 and departed for Jones Co between 1809 and 1812. By 1816, only a George Hughs was taxed on land that had been originally granted to K Todd. George was presumably some relative of the Robert Hughes who owned 210 acres on Fishing Creek adjacent to K. Todd. In any event, by 1812, Benjamin had moved to the Jones/Putnam County border where he remained for the rest of his life. By 1812, Benjamin and his brother John Todd b 1770-1780 had settled along the border between Jones and Putname County. In 1812, Benjamin Todd bought Parcel 183 just south of the boundary line. Also, in 1812, Benjamin was a witness to a strange deed recorded by John Todd of Putnam County transferring ownership of John’s livestock to his “beloved sons Benjamin and Levi”. This type of deed was traditionaly used as a legal maneuver to avoid having one's estate taken by creditors. In 1816, Lot 169 in Putnam County, a parcel immediately to the NW of Benjamin Todd’s land was sold to his brother John Todd by J. F. Martin/Martain. Benjamin and his son John B. were on the 1816 Jones County tax list, Capt Green's District 378) Benjamin would have been 33 or 34 years old when he come to Jones Co. Then in 1817, Benjamin bought Lot 170, an adjacent parcel just south of Lot 169, and in 1821 and 1823 acquired Lot 184, just to the west of Lot 169. Benjamin was referred to as Benjamin Todd Sr in the 1823 deed reflecting that Benjamin G. Todd b 1800 son of John Todd b 1770-1780 had turned 21 between 1821 and 1823. By 1823, John and Benjamin Todd owned over a square mile of land (800 acres) with Benjamin Todd owning adjoining parcels on the south, south east and southwest of John Todd. By the 1830s, additional lands were acquired. Benjamin’s son, William and William‘s wife Charity somehow acquired interest in Lots 162 and 163 which they sold to John Todd, William’s brother, and to Benjamin Todd, William’s father - each one getting about 130 acres. Benjamin received the 50 acres that straddled the county border. John seems to have acquired another 120 acres on his own further south in Lot 161 (though no deed is recorded). Then in 1833, Benjamin sold the land he got from William and Charity to his son-in-law Thomas Vincent. Then, in 1839, John sold to Benjamin Todd 80 acres in Lot 162 he got from William and 121 acres in Lot 161 he had obtained on his own. Then, in 1847, John sold 100 acres to Joseph Messer which probably included the 50 acres in Lot 163 he had gotten from William.
     "In February of 1855 Benjamin was struck by a falling tree and killed. He was over seventy-five years old and had outlived all three of his sons. "An abstract of Benjamin's will shows the following in Will BK 1851-64, dated 10-Sep-1853 and recorded 10-Jan-1855: I give to my beloved wife Charity Todd during her natural life and aft death, to be returned to my estate and equally divided among my children and their legal representatives, one hundred one and a fourth acres of land being one half of lot number (not known) in Dist 6 of formerly Baldwin, but now Jones County, being the place where I now reside with all the improvements thereon. Also one Negro woman named Harriet, abt twenty six or seven years of age, and a Negro girl named Louisa, abt thirteen years old, and one Negro fellow named Jesse, abt fifty years old, two cows and calves, two sows and pigs, two beds and bedsteads, furniture, one loom and gearing, and as many of the bedclothes as she may wish, etc. "His heirs are listed as his wife Charity, children and gchildren; Mary Green and children, Susan and Richmond Buckner, Rebecca and Thomas Vincent, Elizabeth and Reason Buckner, the wives and children of John B Todd and Benjamin A Todd. From his will one may reasonably assume that any children of his son, William Lewis Todd, who had predeceased him bef 1833, were either dead or had disappeared. William's orphans drew land in the 1832 Lottery BK D, though a widow was not listed. One of those was possibly the William L Todd 17, though named as a Vincent listed with Benjamin Todd on 1850 census.
     "Note: Previous family historians were led to believe that Benjamin Todd was son of John Todd of Clinton, Jones Co GA and that this John was father of Benjamin and Levi Todd of Putnam Co and that Benjamin bought land from the John Todd of Clinton, Jones Co. See the discussion under Benjamin's brother, John Todd b1770-80, to sort out this confusion.
     "Deed References: Holman Freeman to Benjamin Todd, 8 Apr 1812, 10 Feb 1819, K p 119, 202 acres, 9th District, Lot 183 This Indenture made 8 April 1812..Holman Freeman of Wilkes Co and Benjamin Todd of Jones County..$300..202-1/2 acres 9th District Lot 183 bounded on SW by Lot 182 and on NE by lot 184 recorded 10 Feb 1819. Putnam: This indenture made 5 Jan 1821..Willis Stringer of said co and Benjamin Todd of Jones Co..$600..101-1/4acres..10th District..one half of Lot 184. bounded by a part of Lot 191 and on the North by the other half of said Lot Recorded 22 Oct 1822 Putnam County: This Indenture made ..6 Oct 1823..Thomas Hathorn of County of Putnam and Benjamin Todd Senr of the County of Jones..$600... half square Lot or parcel..10th District Lot 184..the NW half of said Lot bounded on the NW by Lot 185 and on the SE by the other half of the original Lot..101-1/4 acres recorded 22 April 1824
     "Notes from Lin Cornelius: "The Todds and Buckners were closely associated in Rowan County, NC and continued aft going to GA. Richmond Buckner, who m. Benjamin's dau, Susannah, in Jones County, GA was a cousin of Reason Buckner, who m. her sis, Elizabeth, and to further strengthen family ties, Reason's sis, Elizabeth, m. Benjamin Allen Todd in Monroe County, GA." Buckner researchers have Benjamin m. to Rebecca Montgomery, d/o David and Mary. These Todds went from Rowan County, NC to GA with the Buckner and Avery families. A Fortunate Drawer (winner) in Baldwin (now Jones) County's LandLottery; section 10; 202 acres The Todd House, built in the early 1800s between Union Hill and Devils Half Acre, was destroyed sometime after 1957. Based on the statements of area residents who knew the house it was built in the same style as the Mathis House just down the road. The Mathis House is now (1999) much modified from its original form and used as a deer check station. Benjamin Todd appears on the 1832 Land Lottery list Bk D. Unfortunately, his first wife's name does not appear on any deeds and a record of the marriage has not yet been found. A very strong clue, however, to her identity was that Benjamin was named Administer of the 1810 Wilkes Co GA estate of David A. Montgomery. Benjamin Todd was appointed May 7,1810. Buckner researchers have named her Rebecca Montgomery, and she may have well been so.
     "He was married a second time to Miss Charity Kilby on July 18, 1841. Miss Kilby was born in South Carolina and was unable to read or write.She remarried after Benjamin's death, a decent year later to John Harrup on 3-16-1856. It is reported by Anita Steele that there was a bible record of Benjamin's family in a bible having belonged originally to John B.Todd. Among her Aunt's partially typed and partially handwritten notes is this: "from Bible owned by Jn B Todd, published by H.E. Phinney, Cooperstown, NY, 1829" listing two additional sons of Benjamin and Rebecca, who died in infancy. [We do not now know who owns this bible.] From his will one may reasonably assume that any children of his son William Lewis Todd, who had predeceased him before 1833, were either dead or had disappeared. William's orphans drew land in the 1832 lottery book D, though a widow was not listed. One of those was possibly the William L. Todd, age 17 (though named as a Vincent) listed with Benj. Todd on 1850 census. After Benjamin's death and his wife's remarriage, the house was occupied by the Vincent family (his daughter Rebecca had marriedThomas Vincent). By the time an 1879 map was drawn of the area, the house had become known as the Driscol House. Lorena Spillers notes, via Anita Steel: "Benjamin TODD, born 1778 Rowan County, NC, died 1855 Jones County,GA; married (1st) 1798 Wilkes County, GA, Rebecca Montgomery, born1775-1785 NC, died 1830 Jones County, GA. Benjamin married (2nd) 1841Charity Kilby, who married (2nd) John Harris. Rebecca was the mother of all of Benjamin's children. Children: John B., 1799 WilkesCounty, GA; Mary, 1800-1801 Wilkes County, GA; Susan, 1805 WilkesCounty, GA; William Lewis, 1807 Wilkes County, GA; Rebecca, 1812 Jones County, GA; and Elizabeth, 1814 Jones County, GA." MONTGOMERY, DAVID dec'd. est. Benj. Todd, admr. Received of Mrs.Montgomery pay for 13 acres land. Mar. 1, 1813. The book "History of Jones County Georgia" by Carolyn White Williams contains an article on the Todd and Buckner families who lived in the Union Hill area straddling the Putnam/Jones border in the first half of the nineteenth century. There is no author credited for this article, and Ms. Williams' house burned after the book was published, losing all her notes forever, so we are completely at a loss as to who wrote the piece or what their sources were. I have come to believe that the source for the Williams' article was a Buckner descendant -most likely the late Lorena Martin Spillers. (See discussion under Benjamin's brother John Todd to sort out the various John Todd's.) Ms. Spillers' did most of her research from 1925 through 1975, and the Williams' book was published in 1957. The assertions in Williams' book are that Benjamin Todd was the son of John Todd Jr and his wife Margaret Erwin, and that Benjamin had a brother named Levi Todd. Further it states that John Jr was the son of John Todd Sr of Rowan County, North Carolina, and his wife, Sarah, who also had a son they named Giles Todd. This is in some conflict with research by other Todd investigators. Annette B. Todd has a rather extensive webpage (at the Family TreeMaker website) offering scads of documentation proving that John Todd Sr and his wife Sarah (they theorize her maiden name was Giles), who were the parents of John Jr and Giles, could not have been the grandparents of Benjamin Todd of Jones County, Georgia. Further, the Wautauga County NC website has a section quoting a work on prominent families of Wautauga wherein a Todd family bible contains the following: "From the old Todd family Bible, printed in Edinborough by Mark andCharles Kerr, MDCCXCI, it is learned that James Todd was born July 31,1757, and Margaret Erwin, his wife, October 14, 1759. These were married March 11, 1784; and that John Sharp Todd, father of James, was born December 11, 1724, and his wife, Nancy, was born June 7, 1739. James Todd died November 17 1814. He was a soldier of the Revolution,and Mrs. Lizzie McGhee, of Boone, has the old powder-horn he used inthat war." Owing to the anonymous nature of the article's author, the excellent work done by Annette B. Todd on the John Todd Sr line, and the bible quoted by the Wautaga website, the assertions in the Williams book concerning the earlier generations of Todds (those before they arrived in Georgia) must be considered highly suspect, and I believe them to be entirely false. Todd researcher Lorena Martin Spillers concluded that Benjamin's father John was descended from the Joseph Todd line out of Eling,England. She did not cite source notes. See the discussion under John Todd b 1770-1780 for clarification of the five different John Todds confused with being one John Todd and with being the father of Benjamin.
     "[WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA] LOTTERY OF 1803 EXPLANATORY The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the Creek Indiansin a treaty at Fort Wilkinson, June 16, 1802, and included "theTerritory south of the Oconee and Altamaha rivers". This land wasdivided into three counties, Wayne, Wilkinson and Baldwin. The lots inWayne consisted of 490 acres each, those in Baldwin and Wilkinson 2021/2 acres each, three thousand two hundred and forty acres reservedfor a town to be called Milledgeville. Those entitled to draw were every free white male twenty-one years andupwards, and an inhabitant of the state twelve months immediatelypreceding the passage of this act, who had paid tax, one draw; everyfree white male having a wife and one or more legitimate children, twodraws; all widows having legitimate child or children, two draws; allfamilies of orphans having no parents living, two draws. No mention is made of military service in this act, and no provisionis made for soldiers of any war. Georgia, Wilkes Co. We the Justices of the Inferior Court viz:Benjamin Porter, James Anthony, Thomas Mounger and Richard Worshamhaving met the 13th day of June 1803 at the court house agreeable tothe Governors Proclamation for the purpose of receiving the names ofthe inhabitants of the county and the draws to which they are entitledby an Act of the General Assembly passed May 11, last, Do herebycertify that the persons hereinafter named are entitled to the numberof draws designated by the figures one and two opposite their names,viz: James Todd, 1 (pg 302 of Wilkes bk) Joseph Todd, 1 (pg 303 of Wilkes bk) Elizabeth Todd, Wid 2 (pg 303 of Wilkes bk) John Todd Jr, 1 (pg 310 of Wilkes bk) John Todd Sr, 2 (pg 313 of Wilkes bk) Benjamin Todd, 2 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk) Caleb Todd, 2 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk) Aron Todd, 1 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk)"

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1.     Title: OneWorldTree
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc;
2.     Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Page: Birth year: 1778; Birth city: Rowan CO; Birth state: NC.
Author: Edmund West, comp.
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2000;
3.     Title: 1850 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 47, Jones, Georgia; Roll: M432_75;Page: 218; Image: 168.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bur
4.     Title: 1840 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: , Jones, Georgia; Roll: 44; Page: 145.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bur
5.     Title: 1830 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Jones, Georgia; Roll: 18; Page: 440.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bur
6.     Title: 1820 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1820; Census Place: , Jones, Georgia; Roll: M33_7; Page: ;Image: .
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bur
7.     Title: Last Will and Testament
Author: Benjamin Todd
Publication: Name: Written 10 Sep 1853 in Jones Co GA, Recorded in Will Book D ofsame; at Citation.¹

     Charity Kilby was born in 1800.² She married Benjamin Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Unknown (?), on 18 July 1841 at Jones Co., Georgia, USA,
;
His 2nd wife.¹ Charity Kilby married John Harrup on 16 March 1856 at Jones Co., Georgia, USA,
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Her 2nd husband.²
     Charity Kilby was a mentioned with Benjamin Todd and Rebecca? Montgomery? at Citation; Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Benjamin Todd was born in North Carolina about 1778 according to the 1850 census record. He came with his parents from Rowan Co to Wilkes Co GA as a young boy, sometime prior to 1786 when Caleb is listed as a neighbor on a deed and possibly prior to 1781 when his assumed brother William was born.
     "He married about 1798 based on the birth of his first son in 1799. Bucker family researchers had assumed that his being the executor of the estate of David Montgomery in 1810 implied that Benjamin's first wife was a Montgomery. They have assumed this wife was a Rebecca Montgomery but there is no evidence as to how this inference was made.
     "Benjamin had come of age living next door to the Montgomery family . Both Caleb Todd and the Montgomery family owned land stretching between the Clark's Creek and Fishing Creek watersheds. David Montgomery Sr died in 1791 and his estate refers to David, James, Mathew and a daughter who had married Robert Montogmery. There was no reference to a daughter Rebecca. James Montgomery died in 1794, just a few years later, and Rebecca and David Montgomery were administrators, presumably the widow and brother of James Montgomery. Caleb Todd and Thomas Brown (his neighbors) did the inventory. The estate was distributed to Rebecca, Ester, James and John S. Montgomery.
     "Then in 1810, David Montgomery died and his estate was administered by Benjamin Todd. Given that one researcher has listed the death date of Rebecca Montgomery Todd in 14 Sept 1839 Jones Co GA, we can not discount that Benjamin's wife COULD have been a Rebecca Montgomery but we can find no documentary evidence of this.
     "In any event, In 1799, he appears in the tax list of Wilkes County GA for the first time, being taxed for 60 acres which were originally granted to Caleb Todd, Benjamin's father. By 1804, he has acquired 187 acres of Caleb’s land and Caleb has disappeared from the tax lists, presumably having gone to Madison County Kentucky where most of his kin had settled. Benjamin was still on the tax lists in 1809 and departed for Jones Co between 1809 and 1812. By 1816, only a George Hughs was taxed on land that had been originally granted to K Todd. George was presumably some relative of the Robert Hughes who owned 210 acres on Fishing Creek adjacent to K. Todd. In any event, by 1812, Benjamin had moved to the Jones/Putnam County border where he remained for the rest of his life. By 1812, Benjamin and his brother John Todd b 1770-1780 had settled along the border between Jones and Putname County. In 1812, Benjamin Todd bought Parcel 183 just south of the boundary line. Also, in 1812, Benjamin was a witness to a strange deed recorded by John Todd of Putnam County transferring ownership of John’s livestock to his “beloved sons Benjamin and Levi”. This type of deed was traditionaly used as a legal maneuver to avoid having one's estate taken by creditors. In 1816, Lot 169 in Putnam County, a parcel immediately to the NW of Benjamin Todd’s land was sold to his brother John Todd by J. F. Martin/Martain. Benjamin and his son John B. were on the 1816 Jones County tax list, Capt Green's District 378) Benjamin would have been 33 or 34 years old when he come to Jones Co. Then in 1817, Benjamin bought Lot 170, an adjacent parcel just south of Lot 169, and in 1821 and 1823 acquired Lot 184, just to the west of Lot 169. Benjamin was referred to as Benjamin Todd Sr in the 1823 deed reflecting that Benjamin G. Todd b 1800 son of John Todd b 1770-1780 had turned 21 between 1821 and 1823. By 1823, John and Benjamin Todd owned over a square mile of land (800 acres) with Benjamin Todd owning adjoining parcels on the south, south east and southwest of John Todd. By the 1830s, additional lands were acquired. Benjamin’s son, William and William‘s wife Charity somehow acquired interest in Lots 162 and 163 which they sold to John Todd, William’s brother, and to Benjamin Todd, William’s father - each one getting about 130 acres. Benjamin received the 50 acres that straddled the county border. John seems to have acquired another 120 acres on his own further south in Lot 161 (though no deed is recorded). Then in 1833, Benjamin sold the land he got from William and Charity to his son-in-law Thomas Vincent. Then, in 1839, John sold to Benjamin Todd 80 acres in Lot 162 he got from William and 121 acres in Lot 161 he had obtained on his own. Then, in 1847, John sold 100 acres to Joseph Messer which probably included the 50 acres in Lot 163 he had gotten from William.
     "In February of 1855 Benjamin was struck by a falling tree and killed. He was over seventy-five years old and had outlived all three of his sons. "An abstract of Benjamin's will shows the following in Will BK 1851-64, dated 10-Sep-1853 and recorded 10-Jan-1855: I give to my beloved wife Charity Todd during her natural life and aft death, to be returned to my estate and equally divided among my children and their legal representatives, one hundred one and a fourth acres of land being one half of lot number (not known) in Dist 6 of formerly Baldwin, but now Jones County, being the place where I now reside with all the improvements thereon. Also one Negro woman named Harriet, abt twenty six or seven years of age, and a Negro girl named Louisa, abt thirteen years old, and one Negro fellow named Jesse, abt fifty years old, two cows and calves, two sows and pigs, two beds and bedsteads, furniture, one loom and gearing, and as many of the bedclothes as she may wish, etc. "His heirs are listed as his wife Charity, children and gchildren; Mary Green and children, Susan and Richmond Buckner, Rebecca and Thomas Vincent, Elizabeth and Reason Buckner, the wives and children of John B Todd and Benjamin A Todd. From his will one may reasonably assume that any children of his son, William Lewis Todd, who had predeceased him bef 1833, were either dead or had disappeared. William's orphans drew land in the 1832 Lottery BK D, though a widow was not listed. One of those was possibly the William L Todd 17, though named as a Vincent listed with Benjamin Todd on 1850 census.
     "Note: Previous family historians were led to believe that Benjamin Todd was son of John Todd of Clinton, Jones Co GA and that this John was father of Benjamin and Levi Todd of Putnam Co and that Benjamin bought land from the John Todd of Clinton, Jones Co. See the discussion under Benjamin's brother, John Todd b1770-80, to sort out this confusion.
     "Deed References: Holman Freeman to Benjamin Todd, 8 Apr 1812, 10 Feb 1819, K p 119, 202 acres, 9th District, Lot 183 This Indenture made 8 April 1812..Holman Freeman of Wilkes Co and Benjamin Todd of Jones County..$300..202-1/2 acres 9th District Lot 183 bounded on SW by Lot 182 and on NE by lot 184 recorded 10 Feb 1819. Putnam: This indenture made 5 Jan 1821..Willis Stringer of said co and Benjamin Todd of Jones Co..$600..101-1/4acres..10th District..one half of Lot 184. bounded by a part of Lot 191 and on the North by the other half of said Lot Recorded 22 Oct 1822 Putnam County: This Indenture made ..6 Oct 1823..Thomas Hathorn of County of Putnam and Benjamin Todd Senr of the County of Jones..$600... half square Lot or parcel..10th District Lot 184..the NW half of said Lot bounded on the NW by Lot 185 and on the SE by the other half of the original Lot..101-1/4 acres recorded 22 April 1824
     "Notes from Lin Cornelius: "The Todds and Buckners were closely associated in Rowan County, NC and continued aft going to GA. Richmond Buckner, who m. Benjamin's dau, Susannah, in Jones County, GA was a cousin of Reason Buckner, who m. her sis, Elizabeth, and to further strengthen family ties, Reason's sis, Elizabeth, m. Benjamin Allen Todd in Monroe County, GA." Buckner researchers have Benjamin m. to Rebecca Montgomery, d/o David and Mary. These Todds went from Rowan County, NC to GA with the Buckner and Avery families. A Fortunate Drawer (winner) in Baldwin (now Jones) County's LandLottery; section 10; 202 acres The Todd House, built in the early 1800s between Union Hill and Devils Half Acre, was destroyed sometime after 1957. Based on the statements of area residents who knew the house it was built in the same style as the Mathis House just down the road. The Mathis House is now (1999) much modified from its original form and used as a deer check station. Benjamin Todd appears on the 1832 Land Lottery list Bk D. Unfortunately, his first wife's name does not appear on any deeds and a record of the marriage has not yet been found. A very strong clue, however, to her identity was that Benjamin was named Administer of the 1810 Wilkes Co GA estate of David A. Montgomery. Benjamin Todd was appointed May 7,1810. Buckner researchers have named her Rebecca Montgomery, and she may have well been so.
     "He was married a second time to Miss Charity Kilby on July 18, 1841. Miss Kilby was born in South Carolina and was unable to read or write.She remarried after Benjamin's death, a decent year later to John Harrup on 3-16-1856. It is reported by Anita Steele that there was a bible record of Benjamin's family in a bible having belonged originally to John B.Todd. Among her Aunt's partially typed and partially handwritten notes is this: "from Bible owned by Jn B Todd, published by H.E. Phinney, Cooperstown, NY, 1829" listing two additional sons of Benjamin and Rebecca, who died in infancy. [We do not now know who owns this bible.] From his will one may reasonably assume that any children of his son William Lewis Todd, who had predeceased him before 1833, were either dead or had disappeared. William's orphans drew land in the 1832 lottery book D, though a widow was not listed. One of those was possibly the William L. Todd, age 17 (though named as a Vincent) listed with Benj. Todd on 1850 census. After Benjamin's death and his wife's remarriage, the house was occupied by the Vincent family (his daughter Rebecca had marriedThomas Vincent). By the time an 1879 map was drawn of the area, the house had become known as the Driscol House. Lorena Spillers notes, via Anita Steel: "Benjamin TODD, born 1778 Rowan County, NC, died 1855 Jones County,GA; married (1st) 1798 Wilkes County, GA, Rebecca Montgomery, born1775-1785 NC, died 1830 Jones County, GA. Benjamin married (2nd) 1841Charity Kilby, who married (2nd) John Harris. Rebecca was the mother of all of Benjamin's children. Children: John B., 1799 WilkesCounty, GA; Mary, 1800-1801 Wilkes County, GA; Susan, 1805 WilkesCounty, GA; William Lewis, 1807 Wilkes County, GA; Rebecca, 1812 Jones County, GA; and Elizabeth, 1814 Jones County, GA." MONTGOMERY, DAVID dec'd. est. Benj. Todd, admr. Received of Mrs.Montgomery pay for 13 acres land. Mar. 1, 1813. The book "History of Jones County Georgia" by Carolyn White Williams contains an article on the Todd and Buckner families who lived in the Union Hill area straddling the Putnam/Jones border in the first half of the nineteenth century. There is no author credited for this article, and Ms. Williams' house burned after the book was published, losing all her notes forever, so we are completely at a loss as to who wrote the piece or what their sources were. I have come to believe that the source for the Williams' article was a Buckner descendant -most likely the late Lorena Martin Spillers. (See discussion under Benjamin's brother John Todd to sort out the various John Todd's.) Ms. Spillers' did most of her research from 1925 through 1975, and the Williams' book was published in 1957. The assertions in Williams' book are that Benjamin Todd was the son of John Todd Jr and his wife Margaret Erwin, and that Benjamin had a brother named Levi Todd. Further it states that John Jr was the son of John Todd Sr of Rowan County, North Carolina, and his wife, Sarah, who also had a son they named Giles Todd. This is in some conflict with research by other Todd investigators. Annette B. Todd has a rather extensive webpage (at the Family TreeMaker website) offering scads of documentation proving that John Todd Sr and his wife Sarah (they theorize her maiden name was Giles), who were the parents of John Jr and Giles, could not have been the grandparents of Benjamin Todd of Jones County, Georgia. Further, the Wautauga County NC website has a section quoting a work on prominent families of Wautauga wherein a Todd family bible contains the following: "From the old Todd family Bible, printed in Edinborough by Mark andCharles Kerr, MDCCXCI, it is learned that James Todd was born July 31,1757, and Margaret Erwin, his wife, October 14, 1759. These were married March 11, 1784; and that John Sharp Todd, father of James, was born December 11, 1724, and his wife, Nancy, was born June 7, 1739. James Todd died November 17 1814. He was a soldier of the Revolution,and Mrs. Lizzie McGhee, of Boone, has the old powder-horn he used inthat war." Owing to the anonymous nature of the article's author, the excellent work done by Annette B. Todd on the John Todd Sr line, and the bible quoted by the Wautaga website, the assertions in the Williams book concerning the earlier generations of Todds (those before they arrived in Georgia) must be considered highly suspect, and I believe them to be entirely false. Todd researcher Lorena Martin Spillers concluded that Benjamin's father John was descended from the Joseph Todd line out of Eling,England. She did not cite source notes. See the discussion under John Todd b 1770-1780 for clarification of the five different John Todds confused with being one John Todd and with being the father of Benjamin.
     "[WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA] LOTTERY OF 1803 EXPLANATORY The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the Creek Indiansin a treaty at Fort Wilkinson, June 16, 1802, and included "theTerritory south of the Oconee and Altamaha rivers". This land wasdivided into three counties, Wayne, Wilkinson and Baldwin. The lots inWayne consisted of 490 acres each, those in Baldwin and Wilkinson 2021/2 acres each, three thousand two hundred and forty acres reservedfor a town to be called Milledgeville. Those entitled to draw were every free white male twenty-one years andupwards, and an inhabitant of the state twelve months immediatelypreceding the passage of this act, who had paid tax, one draw; everyfree white male having a wife and one or more legitimate children, twodraws; all widows having legitimate child or children, two draws; allfamilies of orphans having no parents living, two draws. No mention is made of military service in this act, and no provisionis made for soldiers of any war. Georgia, Wilkes Co. We the Justices of the Inferior Court viz:Benjamin Porter, James Anthony, Thomas Mounger and Richard Worshamhaving met the 13th day of June 1803 at the court house agreeable tothe Governors Proclamation for the purpose of receiving the names ofthe inhabitants of the county and the draws to which they are entitledby an Act of the General Assembly passed May 11, last, Do herebycertify that the persons hereinafter named are entitled to the numberof draws designated by the figures one and two opposite their names,viz: James Todd, 1 (pg 302 of Wilkes bk) Joseph Todd, 1 (pg 303 of Wilkes bk) Elizabeth Todd, Wid 2 (pg 303 of Wilkes bk) John Todd Jr, 1 (pg 310 of Wilkes bk) John Todd Sr, 2 (pg 313 of Wilkes bk) Benjamin Todd, 2 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk) Caleb Todd, 2 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk) Aron Todd, 1 (pg 317 of Wilkes bk)"

Sources
1.     Title: OneWorldTree
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc;
2.     Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Page: Birth year: 1778; Birth city: Rowan CO; Birth state: NC.
Author: Edmund West, comp.
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2000;
3.     Title: 1850 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 47, Jones, Georgia; Roll: M432_75;Page: 218; Image: 168.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bur
4.     Title: 1840 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: , Jones, Georgia; Roll: 44; Page: 145.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bur
5.     Title: 1830 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Jones, Georgia; Roll: 18; Page: 440.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bur
6.     Title: 1820 United States Federal Census
Page: Year: 1820; Census Place: , Jones, Georgia; Roll: M33_7; Page: ;Image: .
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bur
7.     Title: Last Will and Testament
Author: Benjamin Todd
Publication: Name: Written 10 Sep 1853 in Jones Co GA, Recorded in Will Book D ofsame.¹

     John Harrup married Charity Kilby on 16 March 1856 at Jones Co., Georgia, USA,
;
Her 2nd husband.¹

     Benjamin Todd was born on 7 January 1781.¹ He married Alsey Nickerson on 15 August 1806 at Madison Co., Kentucky, USA.^2,1

     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Benjamin Todd who married Alsey Nickerson is the son of Joseph Todd b 1757 and Mary Berry, not the son of Caleb Todd b 1758, as previously reported. Joseph’s widow’s pension application showed that Benjamin Todd his son was born in 1781 and that he was still in Madison County in 1845. The only Benjamin of this era still in Madion County in 1845 was the Benjamin who married Alsey Nickerson. Benjamin is listed on the tax records of Madison County, KY1801-1805 and 1807-1811. He is listed with 1 son and 1 daughter on the 1810 census record and is also listed as Clay's Overseer and not Benjamin(I) Todd as earlier records stated. "He appears to be the Benjamin listed on the tax lists in 1804 and 1805 as owning 70 acres on Silver Creek, but we have no record of any purchase or sale for this land." In Madison County, KY, Benjamin is listed as an Overseer for Green Clay in 1810 census. Clay was the wealthiest man in KY at the time. He built the home, Clermont 1798/99, which his son, Cassius, turned into Whitehall in the 1860s. Whitehall is now a tourist attraction and his son, Cassius, was Ambassador to Russia during the time of Abraham Lincoln. 1803 Book E, Green Clay to Benjamin Todd, 68 acres. The 1803 Deed of Benjamin Todd from Green Clay was for 68 acres on Drowning Creek; neighbors: John Mobley, Childers, William Gennings, and Thomas Paden. The 68 acres was part of Clay's 640 acre grant. This land may have been the land sold by Benjamin and Margaret Todd in 1806; hence it is not likley that Benjamin b 1781 was the purchaser of the land from Green Clay. Paint Lick (Madison) KY Census: 1810 Benjamin Todd 00010-201 1820 Benjamin Todd 300010-21010 1830 Benjamin Todd 0221101-1110201 1840 Benjamin Todd 00010001-11110001 "Synthesis: Benjamin b 1780/84, Alsey b 1780/84, 2 Daus b 1806/10, Son b 1810, Son b 1810/15, Son b 1815/20, Dau b 1810/20, Dau b 1815/20,Son b 1820, 2 Sons b 1820/1825, Dau b 1820/25, Dau b 1825/30 (Mary),Dau b 1830/35 (Minerva), and Dau b 1835/40 (Jemima)."

Sources
1.     Title: Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
Page: Database online.
Author: Dodd, Jordan
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:1997; at Citation.¹

     Mary Jane Douglass was born circa 1787 at Madison Co., Kentucky, USA.¹ She married William "Colonel Bill" Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Unknown (?), on 12 January 1804 at Richmond, Madison Co., Kentucky, USA.^1,2

Mary Jane Douglass was buried in 1868 at Jacobs Cemetery, Donnell Chapel, Rutherford Co., Tennessee, USA; From Find A Grave:
Mary Jane Douglass died in 1868 at Rutherford Co., Tennessee, USA.¹

     Jean Russell was born circa 1790.¹ She married Reuben Todd, son of Caleb Todd and Unknown (?), circa 1809
;
His 1st wife.¹
Jean Russell died circa 1825 at Rutherford Co., Tennessee, USA.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Reuben Todd was born in Wilkes Co GA in 1785. He came to Madison Co and was on the tax lists 1803 to 1805 and then went with his brother William and uncle Benjamin 1759-1854 to Rutherford Co TN. He lived to over 100 years old. Reuben Sr. Todd b. 1780, GA, lxiii Baptized: Baptist Church, Occupation: Farmer, m. (1) ca 1809, Jean Russell, d. ca 1825, m. (2)11-Apr-1827, in Rutherford County, TN, lxiv Jemima Todd, b. 1810, Rutherford County, TN, lxv (daughter of Aaron 'Captain' Todd and Sally Todd) d.bef 22-Mar-1888, Rutherford County, TN, Bur. Probably Pearson Cemetery (Rutherford) TN. Reuben died 17-Dec-1883, Rutherford County, TN,35 Bur. Pearson Cemetery (Rutherford) TN,
     "Other: War 1812. Reuben is listed in the Silver Creek area of Madison County, KY between 1803 and 1805. 1803: 10003; one male over 21 and 3 horses. 1804: 10002; one male over 21 and 2 horses.Same for 1805. Reuben disappears about the same time his uncle Benjamin1759-1854 disappears from Madison County, KY. "It is likely that he is the Reuben Todd who appeared in the Madison County, KY tax lists 1803-1805 since we know his brother, William, married in Madison County. This would mean that he came from GA to KY five or six yrs aft the main 1796 migration of Todds from Rowan County, NC to Madison County, KY." Reuben was on 1810 Rutherford County, TN Census: 1M 16/26, 1F 16/26,and 1F u 10. I have seen his name spelled Reubin and Rubin, but his military records have Reuben. "Deed Book Z page 120, Alfred P Gowen to Reubin Todd, 100 acres, indenture Jan 17, 1842 for $248.00, Reg Jan 18, 1842. Deed Book Z page 302, Walter S Lowe to Reubin Todd, 24 acres, indenture May 20, 1842 for $40.00,begin on W H Murry corner on waters of Cripple Creek to John McCrany line to Benjamin Todd, etc, Reg May 20, 1842," per Edna Todd Lackie. On the date of Mar 23, 1871 Reuben Todd appeared before the court at the age of 86, resident of Rutherford County, stated his wife as Gemmated, whom he m. aft the War of 1812, and stated he served in the War of 1812, that his bro, William Todd, was a Lt in his company, and was stationed mostly at Fort Williams, AL; was in several skirmishes with Indians when he crossed through the Cherokee Nation. He was at Fort Lasly in Talledega aft the fights and has drawn two land warrants, 80acres each. Declaration of Surviving Soldier for Pension, Act of Feb14, 1871, Original #4418 and Certificate #3517. D P Jacobs and Aaron Runnels witnessed his mark. He was in Cpt Abner Pierce's CO TN MilitiaPvt, commanded by Maj William Woodfolk. He enlisted 20-Sep-1814 and discharged 10-Apr-1815. Full Pension Application and his length of service was 203 days, which states he d.on 17-Dec-1883.
     "Family Finder DNA tests done in 2011 show that Reuben was not the son of Mary Todd and that Walker Todd b 1822, though related, was not a nephew. Though some of the Family Finder tests were contradictory, one sample from a descendant of Abel Todd b 1795 test, one from a desc of Reuben Todd b 1785 and one from a desc of John Todd b 1770-80 , suggested that they were all brothers and therefore sons of Caleb Todd b 1751. Jemima, in her application for a widow's pension in 1885, swore that the family records had been destroyed, but she believed Reuben was 107 years old at the time of his death. A newspaper article (NB & NW,11-19-1880) named Reuben Todd of Dist 25, age 100, the oldest man in Rutherford County, TN. Reuben lived in Carlocksville (Rutherford) TN. 1850 Rutherford County, TN Census: Reuben 58 (1792) GA, Jamima 40 TN, Linda 18, John 13, Aaron 12, Hannah 9, Mary M. 2, Samuel Moor 21, Levi Moor 14 - RU CO HH# 786/609.

Sources
1.     Title: 1850 United States Federal Census
Page: Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: Big Spring, Rutherford,Tennessee; Roll: M432_894
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2005;
2.     Title: 1860 United States Federal Census
Page: Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Big Spring, Rutherford,Tennessee; Roll: ; Page:
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2004;
3.     Title: 1870 United States Federal Census
Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: District 24, Rutherford,Tennessee; Roll: M593_;
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2003;
4.     Title: 1880 United States Federal Census
Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: District 24, Rutherford,Tennessee; Roll: T9_1276
Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2005;
5.     Title: Whitley
Page: Page 72
6.     Title: Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Page: Database online.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2008; at Citation.²

     Joseph Todd was born on 4 August 1757 at Easton, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania, USA.¹ He married Mary Berry on 3 May 1779 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.²

Joseph Todd died on 30 December 1842 at Madison Co., Kentucky, USA, at age 85.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Joseph Todd was born in the Easton, Northampton County PA area in 1757. He came as a teen to Rowan Co with his parents in 1770. He served in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension for his service. He married Mary Berry in 1779 during the War. He was active in the Jersey Baptist Meeting House. He was dismissed from the congregation in 1796 and shortly thereafter he moved to Madison Couny KY where he settled on Muddy Creek along with his father and siblings and cousins. He died in Madison County in 1842.
     "Notes and Documentation: Joseph Todd in 1810 census was listd with 5 sons: 2 born 1784-1794 who we take to be Caleb Todd b 1794 and Thomas b 1792. 1 born 1794-1800 2 born 1800-1810 one of which we take to be Levi Todd His older children married before 1810 and hence would not be enumerated with him: Benjamin b 1781 md 1806 William md 1809 Berry md 1805 Joseph md 1804
     "Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files 3511: "Joseph, NC Line, Mary,W3055. Soldier m. Mary Barry (or Berry). Lawrence Snap signed marriage bond with sol on 3-May-1779 in Rowan County, NC and stated sol had lived in Rowan County, NC at enlistment. Soldier applied 13-Aug-1832 in Madison County, KY. Soldier d. 30-Dec-1842. Soldier's wife, Mary, was b 12-Nov-1760. Widow applied 12-Dec-1844 in Madison County, KY. Soldier and wife had a son, Benjamin Todd b 7-Jan-1781 and another older son died when he was young." Guard at Salisbury Dist Gaol, Rowan County, NC 1778.
     "Witnessed the will of Robert Barkley on 05-Dec-1786 at Rowan County, NC. Joseph Todd Jr was on the 1784 and 1790 tax lists of Rowan County, NC with 3M under 16. Jersey Baptist Meetinghouse, Davidson County, NC Record MF#0313896, submitted by Betty I Silfies (Vol 1) 1784-1852: "This appears to be typewritten copy of the original record book." The Church of Christ at the Jersey settlement house was constituted Oct 16th day 1784. By William Hill, on the members, Drury Sims, Abraham Lewis, Joseph Todd (son of Benjamin and Sarah) Thomas Adams, James Owen, Joseph Cox, William Denham, Robert McKey, Hannah Beard, Mary Miller, Elizabeth Cox, Easter Lewis, Anney Todd, and Mary Smith. This day of Nov, Church met according to appointment and aft prayer, Joseph Todd was chosen as Elder, and Abraham Lewis, Deacon. Meeting dismissed by prayer. Sep 24th 1785, church met and aft prayer opened adore for experience. Thomas Smith, John Green, Jeremiah Green, Mary Green, and Hannah Todd were receiv'd by experience. Church dismist by prayer. (Anney Todd became Conrad Cornelison's wife. Abraham Lewis m.Easter Todd, Oct 24th 1787, Joseph Cox and Elizabeth Cox dismist. Apr 26th 1788, Sary Todd receiv'd by experience. Jan 13th 1789, Abraham Lewis appointed to go and talk to (?). Apr 30th 1791, church met and aft prayer opened a dore for experience and Joseph Todd Daniel McGuire, and Caleb Campbell offered and was receiv'd by experience. Jul 3rd 1791, Caleb Campbell, Joseph Todd Daniel McGuire, and Mary Richardson were baptized. Jun 16th 1792, Mary Todd was receiv'd by experience. Aug 3rd 1793,Margaret Todd receiv'd by experience. Dec 6th 1794, church met and aft prayer opened a dore for experience. Conrad Cornelison and his wife receiv'd by letter. Aft prayer, dismist. Aug 1st 1795, Abraham Luis, his wife, and Hannah Todd dismist by letter. Sep 5th 1795, Bro Luis, his wife, Sis Hannah Todd, and Sis Davis dismist by letter. Aug 6th 1796, Bro Joseph Todd and his wife make application for a Letter of Dismission. Bro Joshua Pain and his wife make application for a Letter of Dismission. Sis Margaret Todd makes application for Letter of Dismission. It is granted and Bro Durham is appointed to write the letters. Mar 4th 1797, Joshua Conger appointed to have 'Charge of the Records' of the Church. At the end of the book, a list of "Members of Jersey Baptist Meetinghouse (partial list only); Abraham Luis dismist, Joseph Todd dismist Joseph Cox dismist, Joseph Todd dismist 1796, Conrad Cornelison dismist Sep 15th1798, and Joshua Conger dismist 1809."
     "Joseph was on the 1790 Rowan County, NC Census, Salisbury Dist, with1M o 16, 3M u 16, and 2 Free White Females. Joseph was on the tax records of Madison County, KY 1801-1809. KY Document: "Whereas Joseph Todd on the 4th day of Oct 1808,purchased of Samuel Estill, twenty acres of land lying on Muddy Creek for which said Estill gave his bond to said Todd, which bond said,Todd has assigned Anderson Reed, and as doubts have been entertained about said Todd's wife having a right to Dower (?) therein. This is therefore to make known that I, Mary Todd, do relinquish all my rights of Dower to said Reed in and to said land. Given under my hand and seal this 26th of Jun 1819, State of Kentucky, Madison County."

Sources
1.     Title: North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
Page: Database online. Data Source: North Carolina State Archives.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2007; at Citation.¹

     Mary Berry was born on 12 November 1760.¹ She married Joseph Todd, son of Benjamin Todd Sr. and Sarah Lydia Griffin, on 3 May 1779 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.¹

     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Joseph Todd was born in the Easton, Northampton County PA area in 1757. He came as a teen to Rowan Co with his parents in 1770. He served in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension for his service. He married Mary Berry in 1779 during the War. He was active in the Jersey Baptist Meeting House. He was dismissed from the congregation in 1796 and shortly thereafter he moved to Madison Couny KY where he settled on Muddy Creek along with his father and siblings and cousins. He died in Madison County in 1842.
     "Notes and Documentation: Joseph Todd in 1810 census was listd with 5 sons: 2 born 1784-1794 who we take to be Caleb Todd b 1794 and Thomas b 1792. 1 born 1794-1800 2 born 1800-1810 one of which we take to be Levi Todd His older children married before 1810 and hence would not be enumerated with him: Benjamin b 1781 md 1806 William md 1809 Berry md 1805 Joseph md 1804
     "Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files 3511: "Joseph, NC Line, Mary,W3055. Soldier m. Mary Barry (or Berry). Lawrence Snap signed marriage bond with sol on 3-May-1779 in Rowan County, NC and stated sol had lived in Rowan County, NC at enlistment. Soldier applied 13-Aug-1832 in Madison County, KY. Soldier d. 30-Dec-1842. Soldier's wife, Mary, was b 12-Nov-1760. Widow applied 12-Dec-1844 in Madison County, KY. Soldier and wife had a son, Benjamin Todd b 7-Jan-1781 and another older son died when he was young." Guard at Salisbury Dist Gaol, Rowan County, NC 1778.
     "Witnessed the will of Robert Barkley on 05-Dec-1786 at Rowan County, NC. Joseph Todd Jr was on the 1784 and 1790 tax lists of Rowan County, NC with 3M under 16. Jersey Baptist Meetinghouse, Davidson County, NC Record MF#0313896, submitted by Betty I Silfies (Vol 1) 1784-1852: "This appears to be typewritten copy of the original record book." The Church of Christ at the Jersey settlement house was constituted Oct 16th day 1784. By William Hill, on the members, Drury Sims, Abraham Lewis, Joseph Todd (son of Benjamin and Sarah) Thomas Adams, James Owen, Joseph Cox, William Denham, Robert McKey, Hannah Beard, Mary Miller, Elizabeth Cox, Easter Lewis, Anney Todd, and Mary Smith. This day of Nov, Church met according to appointment and aft prayer, Joseph Todd was chosen as Elder, and Abraham Lewis, Deacon. Meeting dismissed by prayer. Sep 24th 1785, church met and aft prayer opened adore for experience. Thomas Smith, John Green, Jeremiah Green, Mary Green, and Hannah Todd were receiv'd by experience. Church dismist by prayer. (Anney Todd became Conrad Cornelison's wife. Abraham Lewis m.Easter Todd, Oct 24th 1787, Joseph Cox and Elizabeth Cox dismist. Apr 26th 1788, Sary Todd receiv'd by experience. Jan 13th 1789, Abraham Lewis appointed to go and talk to (?). Apr 30th 1791, church met and aft prayer opened a dore for experience and Joseph Todd Daniel McGuire, and Caleb Campbell offered and was receiv'd by experience. Jul 3rd 1791, Caleb Campbell, Joseph Todd Daniel McGuire, and Mary Richardson were baptized. Jun 16th 1792, Mary Todd was receiv'd by experience. Aug 3rd 1793,Margaret Todd receiv'd by experience. Dec 6th 1794, church met and aft prayer opened a dore for experience. Conrad Cornelison and his wife receiv'd by letter. Aft prayer, dismist. Aug 1st 1795, Abraham Luis, his wife, and Hannah Todd dismist by letter. Sep 5th 1795, Bro Luis, his wife, Sis Hannah Todd, and Sis Davis dismist by letter. Aug 6th 1796, Bro Joseph Todd and his wife make application for a Letter of Dismission. Bro Joshua Pain and his wife make application for a Letter of Dismission. Sis Margaret Todd makes application for Letter of Dismission. It is granted and Bro Durham is appointed to write the letters. Mar 4th 1797, Joshua Conger appointed to have 'Charge of the Records' of the Church. At the end of the book, a list of "Members of Jersey Baptist Meetinghouse (partial list only); Abraham Luis dismist, Joseph Todd dismist Joseph Cox dismist, Joseph Todd dismist 1796, Conrad Cornelison dismist Sep 15th1798, and Joshua Conger dismist 1809."
     "Joseph was on the 1790 Rowan County, NC Census, Salisbury Dist, with1M o 16, 3M u 16, and 2 Free White Females. Joseph was on the tax records of Madison County, KY 1801-1809. KY Document: "Whereas Joseph Todd on the 4th day of Oct 1808,purchased of Samuel Estill, twenty acres of land lying on Muddy Creek for which said Estill gave his bond to said Todd, which bond said,Todd has assigned Anderson Reed, and as doubts have been entertained about said Todd's wife having a right to Dower (?) therein. This is therefore to make known that I, Mary Todd, do relinquish all my rights of Dower to said Reed in and to said land. Given under my hand and seal this 26th of Jun 1819, State of Kentucky, Madison County."

Sources
1.     Title: North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
Page: Database online. Data Source: North Carolina State Archives.
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2007; at Citation.²

     Margaret Todd was born in 1780 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.¹ She married William Roberts on 26 May 1808 at Madison Co., Kentucky, USA,
; Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Margaret Todd m. William Roberts on 26-May-1808 in Madison County, KY. This does not appear to be the same Margaret Todd who married Samuel Long 21-May-1812 in Fayette County, KY and who must be a different family."¹

     William Roberts married Margaret Todd, daughter of Joseph Todd and Mary Berry, on 26 May 1808 at Madison Co., Kentucky, USA,
; Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Margaret Todd m. William Roberts on 26-May-1808 in Madison County, KY. This does not appear to be the same Margaret Todd who married Samuel Long 21-May-1812 in Fayette County, KY and who must be a different family."¹

     Alsey Nickerson was born circa 1785 at Virginia, USA.¹ She married Benjamin Todd, son of Joseph Todd and Mary Berry, on 15 August 1806 at Madison Co., Kentucky, USA.^1,2

     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "Alsey Todd 65 b. VA is on 1850 Madison County Census, Dwelling #330,Family 334, with seven children ages 21 to 1. Next door, Dwelling#329, Family 333, Benjamin Todd 69 b. ca 1781 NC, was living with William Burton 30, wife Martha 28, Ruthy 4, and Elizabeth 1. Children in Alsey's household: Mary ca 1829, Minerva ca 1830, Jemima ca 1840,Eliza ca 1844, David ca 1848, John ca 1846/48, and Alfred ca 1849.These children b in the late 1840s were prob not Alsey's children. She would have been at least 65 in 1849."

Sources
1.     Title: Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850
Page: Database online.
Author: Dodd, Jordan
Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:1997; at Citation.¹

     William Todd was born circa 1782 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.¹

     Berry Todd was born circa 1783 at Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA.¹
     Reference: Per McMurty [2013]:
     "There is a marriage bond record in Madison County, KY for Berry Todd to Amyl John and Peter Todd, Bondsman, and dated 16-Nov-1805." at Citation.¹