Line in Record @I087@ (RIN 87) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
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DATE 1814
PLAC WAR OF 1812 VET
IN ROBERT J. MCGINNIS'S POSESSIONJAMES MCGINNIS JR. WAS A WAR OR 1812 VET. HE WAS WITH CAPT. COONROD FLESHER'S COMPANY OF THE OHIO MILITIA.
JAMES JR'S WILL AND VET. PROOF
TAX LIST SHOWING JAMES JR. ON THE TAX ROLES OF 1791-1808 IN HUNTINGTON CO. PA.
TAX LIST SHOWING JAMES JR. ON THE TAX ROLES OF ROSS CO. OH YEAR 1810. BUCKSKIN TWP
RECORDS FROM THE BUCKSKIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SOUTH SALEM OH OF THE JAMES MCGINNIS FAMILY
Notes for CORNELIUS (d'Aubigne) DABNEY:
A. There are two different views on the Origin of the Dabneys of Virginia.
1. The earliest view was that the original founders of the family were Huguenots who first fled to England, married there and then came to America. Tis was a persistent tradition in all branches of the family for many years and was widely promulgated by the publication in 1888 of W.H. Dabney's book, "The Dabneys of Virginia". This belief began to be questioned, however, when it was learned from Old Colonial Records that there was a Dabney in Virginia certainly as early as 1664 when he received land-grants, at least twenty one years before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In fact, Cornelius, the first immigrant who had established himself, learned the language of the the Indians and had been made agent of the colony to the Indians and must have been in Virginia Ten or Twenty years before 1664.
2. The second theory was that the Virginia Dabney's were originally Norman-French and came over with William the Conqueror. Three are numerous Dabneys in England whose genealogies, given by Captain Daubeney of England, show their origin from a Knight D'ALBINI who served with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The "Roll of the Battle Abbey"' ( A DOCUMENT) shows two D'ALBINIS, one a Knight and one a Soldier. But we do not put too much reliance upon it, for Freeman has shown that this Roll was prepared some two centuries later by priests to flatter important families.
3. Finally, in "The Origin of the Dabney Family of Virginia" written and researched by Charles William Dabney, quotes his uncle Captain Charles William Dabney, of Aldington, in writing to W. H. Dabney who says: "we came to be of the same origin as the Daubeneys of England, who are descended from Sir William D'AUBIGNE', Knight, who came over to England with William The Conqueror." The father of Robert Lewis Dabney, wrote from the university of Texas in 1887 to W. H. DABNEY: "The tradition which I heard from my parents was that the stock from which we were sprung emigrated from Cambridge shire or Norfold, England, and that they were of the same lineage as the Daueneys still to be heard of there." footnote, page 635: These statement of my uncle and father are confirmed by the Later investigations, as are those of Judge William Pope Dabney and of Mrs. William L. Dabney and of Col. Payson. Judge William Pope Dabney refers with pride, in writing to W.H. Dabney, to the daubeneys who served under william the conqueror, whose names appear on the roll of batt Abbney and adds: "Among the nobles who took care that Wily King John should keep the terms of MAGNA CARTA (1215) is also found the name of Daubeney." Mrs. William L. Dabney, of Chicago, wrote: "Three of our ancestors served under King Richard in the first in the Crusade." Rev. John Blair Dabney says his grandfather William, told him "That the patriarch of the Virginia Dabneys was an English farmer, who settled in this state at an early stage of our colonial history and he concludes" I have no doubt ...that all the Dabney's of Virginia derive their origin from this old Englis farmer."
Charles W. Dabney goes on to say that he researched the Daubeneys of England where there i 1924. One of the things he found was that a Chapel in St. Peter and Paul Church in south Petherton was devoted to the dAubeneys, one being Sir Gils Daubeney, Knight, Sheriff of Counties Buck, Bedford, etc about 1445.
Name changed to Dabney on immgration to Virginia.
From Warren Burge:
There are two letters (Sainsbury's "Abstracts of Colonial State Papers") in the Public Records Office in London. The first is a state letter from the Queen of the Pamunkeys translated by Cornelius Dabney in his official capacity and transmitted to Colonel Francis Moryson of the Royal Commission of Virginia. The second is a personal letter to Colonel Moryson, dated Virginia, Jun ye 29th, 1678, in which Cornelius Dabney concluded: "...Sr, my wife Edeth has her humble service p'sented unto y' Hono'. (she) would gladly send y' one of her Boyes a yeare or two hence. My humble service to y' Hono' I am: Sr: y' Hono's most humble servant in all obedience. Cornelius Dabney." The personal letter information is from Charles William Dabney in "The Origin of the Dabney Family of Virginia", Va. Mag. of History and Biography, April 1937, Vol. 45, No. 2, p 134.
Sept. 4, 1999
The following are messages taken from the Dabney Genealogy Forum:
Cornelius Dabney, Indian Interpreter
Posted by: Bill Deyo Date: August 13, 1999 at 19:36:12The immigrant ancestor of most of the Dabney s of VA was Cornelius Dabney. He was first married to Eedith, an English woman. At the time that he was married to Eedith he became the interpreter and close companion of Cockacoeske, Queen of the Pamunkey Indians, and widow of Chief Totopotomoi, a grandson of one of the two sisters of Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. Because of Cornelius Dabney's close association with Queen Cockacoeske, it would have been most appropriate for him to have received a woman of the Queen's family to wed after the death of his first wife, Eedith. Cornelius Dabney's second wife, Susanna, is considered by many to have been of the family of Chief Totopotomoi and Cockacoeske. Can anyone tell me of stories in their Dabney family of Indian blood that may help to substantiate this belief? Queen Cockacoeske had an illegitimate son, Capt. John West, by John West, son of Gov. John West of VA. This Capt. John West was with his mother, Cockacoeske, and Cornelius Dabney in the late 1670s when the famous Treaty of Middle Plantation was signed by the various leaders of the tribes under Queen Cockacoeske.
Raymond Paul Williams was stricken with polio in 1927, partially
paralyzing his right hip and leg.
Marvel Claire Williams was an adopted child.
References:
(1) Webb Families of the Virginias: Page 38.