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Tad Hale

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iconnumber posted 01-26-2009 01:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tad Hale     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
wev, here is a challenging family

Abraham LeRoy-clockmaker (possibly from the famous LeRoy clockmaking family)
Anna Marie Leroy-clockmaker
William (or Wilmer) Atkinson-cutler
Charles Hall-silversmith
David Hall-silversmith
William Atkinson-silversmith & clockmaker
Matthew Atkinson-silversmith & clockmaker
Leroy Atkinson-silversmith & assayer
William A Atkinson-silversmith
William Leroy Atkinson-silversmith
Wilton Atkinson-silversmith

and possibly William L and Samuel Jobe both silversmiths

various partnerships and apprentices
various locations and this is a very confusing family


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wev
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iconnumber posted 01-26-2009 06:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wev     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For personal reasons, I do not have but a few minutes to look through old notes, so this is very basic:

Abraham LeRoy -- Swiss clockmaker, settled in Lancaster PA
-- Anne Maria LeRoy -- clockmaker
m. Wilton Atkinson -- cutler
------Matthew -- silversmith, watchmaker
------William Abraham Atkinson -- silversmith, watchmaker
------m. Mary Massengill
----------William Leroy Atkinson -- silversmith
----------Leroy Atkinson -- silversmith
----------Wilton Atkinson -- silversmith, jeweler

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iconnumber posted 01-26-2009 09:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for swarter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Charles Hall and David Hall, silversmiths of Philadelphia were brothers. Charles removed to Lancaster where he continued to work, and his son, David, was also a working silversmith in Lancaster. Charles' brother David continued working in Philadelphia. The two Davids are often conflated.

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Tad Hale

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iconnumber posted 01-27-2009 02:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tad Hale     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a very confusing family and I will post what info I have on them. I thought wev might want to add them to his list. I am related thru the Massengill family and I have a lot of information that has not been published on this bunch.

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Tad Hale

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iconnumber posted 01-28-2009 02:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tad Hale     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Abraham LeRoy (1701-1763)
Married:Anna Maria ____
Clockmaker, Watchmaker, Silversmith?
Lancaster Pa (wc 1757-1763)

Charles Hall (1742-1783)
Married:Salome LeRoy (1742-1817)Daughter of Abraham LeRoy
Silversmith, Goldsmith, Watchmaker
Lancaster Pa (1763-1783)
Philadelphia (Prior to 1763)
Advertised:Pennsylvania Gazette 7/4/1765,
5/14/1777, 3/10/1779

David Hall ( -1779)
Brother of Chas Hall
Married:Hannah ____ ( -1787)
Goldsmith, Silversmith
Philadelphia Pa (1759-1777)
Burlington NJ (1777-1779)
Advertised:Pennsylvania Gazette 12/19/1765,
2/20/2766, 5/24/178(David's
property for sale by cousin Wm.
Ball)
Pa Journal 3/17/1779 Obituary

David Hall (1767-1814)
Son of Charles Hall and Salome LeRoy Hall
Silversmith
Lancaster Pa (wc unknown)
Listed in Tax Records of 1790 as a Freeman
Advertisement:Lancaster Journal 6/3/1814
Obituary

Wilton Atkinson (1735- )
Parents:Matthew Atkinson (1700-1756) and
Margaret Thornbrough ( -1798)
Married:Anna Maria LeRoy(c1741-1823)on
4/24/1762 daughter of Abraham LeRoy
Cutler,Watchmaker,Clockmaker
Lancaster (wc 1762-wc 1780)
Baltimore Md (wc unknown)
Sheriff's sale in May 1767 to settle a debt
Tall Case Clock owned by Dr. George Rohrer
with "Wilton Atkinson" name on dial.

Anna Maria Leroy (c1741-1823)
Parents:Abraham LeRoy (1701-1763)and Anna
Maria ___ Atkinson ( - )
Married:Wilton Atkinson (1735- )on 4/24/1762
Clockmaker, Watchmaker
Spartanburg SC (wc unknown)
Lancaster Pa (wc 1762-wc 1780)
Baltimore Md (1790-1816)
Listed in 1790 Census as head of household
Listed in Baltimore Directory from 1796-1816
as a watchmaker
Made Tall Case Clocks in Lancaster
Advertised:Baltimore Whig 5/22/1810

William Atkinson ( - )
Parents:Wilton Atkinson (1735- )and Anna
Maria LeRoy Atkinson (c1741-1823)
Married:Mary Massingill (1766- )in
Lincolnton NC in 1792
Clockmaker, Silversmith
Baltimore Md (wc 1787- )
Lincolnton NC (wc 1792- )
Concord NC (wc 1795-wc 1800)
Jonesboro Tn (wc 1801)
Kingston Tn (wc 1802-1807)
Grainger County Tn (1810- )
Advertised:Maryland Gazette or Baltimore
Advertiser on 9/18/1787
Halifax's North Carolina Journal
on 1/5/1795 Robbery
Partnership:William and Matthew Atkinson
(WC 1787- )
Cut the first Seal of the State of TN with
brother Matthew Atkinson
Listed in Grainger County Census in 1810

Matthew Abraham Atkinson ( - )
Parents:Wilton Atkinson (1735- )and Anna
Maria LeRoy Atkinson (c1741-1823)
Clockmaker, Silversmith
Baltimore Md (wc 1787-wc 1789)
Knoxville Tn (wc 1791- )
Kingston Tn (wc 1799-1897)
Orleans Parish LA? (wc 1810- )
Partnership:William and Matthew Atkinson
(wc 1787- )
Advertised:Maryland Gazette or Baltimore
Advertiser on 9/18/1787
Cut the first Seal of the State of TN with
brother William Atkinson
Apprentice:Peter Mohlar was aapprentice to
Matthew Atkinson from 1787-1789
to learn the Clock & Watchmaking
trade.

William Atkinson (c 1793- )
Parents:William Atkinson ( - )and Mary
Massingill Atkinson (1766- )
Married:Elizabeth Cobb (1800- )on 9/20/1821
Silversmith
Grainger County Tn (wc 1821-1860)
Rutledge Tn (wc 1860- )
Listed in 1860 Census for Rutledge
Advertised:Knoxville Enquirer 5/3/1826 that
his apprentice William Swords had
run away. (This may be the same
William Sword who many years later
was working in Indiana)

Leroy Atkinson (c1794- )
Parents:William Atkinson ( - )and Mary
Massingill Atkinson (1766- )
Silversmith and Baltimore Assayer
Baltimore Md (1818-1830)
Baltimore Assayer (1824-1830)
Lived with grandmother Anna Maria Leroy in
Baltimore for awhile.
Leroy may be the same man who married Annie
Sneed on May 2,1835 in Milton NC
and had Johnston Sneed as a
silversmiths apprentice. There was
also a man named Adolphus Atkinson
who is possibly Leroy's son that was
a silversmith in Milton NC c1860.

Wilton Atkinson (c1795-after 1860)
Parents:William Atkinson ( - )and Mary
Massingill Atkinson (1766- )
Married:Martha B McKin ( - )
Silversmith, Clock and Watch Repairer,
Jeweler and Goldsmith
Jonesboro Tn (wc 1825-1860)
Partnership:Atkinson and Boyce (1825-1833_
Advertised:Jonesboro Farmer's Journal
12/16/1825
Served in War of 1812 in Andrew Jackson's
Troops

There is also a possibility that Samuel Jobe and William Levi Jobe silversmiths in
Memphis are related to this group as the Jobe's were related to the Cobb's.



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bascall

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iconnumber posted 11-01-2013 10:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Originally from Grainger County records, William L Atkinson married Elizabeth Cobb on 19 September 1821.

Originally from Cemeteries Relocated by TVA, which essentially recorded that William Atkinson Jr died in 1867. He was buried in Cobb Public Cemetery, and then his body was reinterred in a new Cobb Cemetery in 1941 because the Cherokee reservoir encompassed his grave site. Elizabeth Atkinson's body was also reinterred for the same reason. She died in 1872.

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bascall

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iconnumber posted 11-01-2013 12:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tad Hale:
...Married:Elizabeth Cobb (1800- )on 9/20/1821....

Listed in 1860 Census for Rutledge...


I missed this marriage date in my earlier post today.

I believe Rutledge is the post office that serviced this 1860 enumeration district in Grainger County. For myself, unless there's other information to go along with it, it's not enough to call it a residence. It does of course help to narrow down a location.


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iconnumber posted 11-01-2013 12:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Meant to select edit instead of quote

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