Herring, Anthony (b. 1648, d. 1715)

Note: Isle of Wight Deeds, Wills-Great Book Vol. 2 1715-1726 p. 9
p. 490 28 May 1722....Henry West of the lower parish to John Westrya of the same...100 acres in the lower parish adjoining William Westray, Anthony Herring, the Indian Path and Thomas Applewhaite (being part of a patent for 700 acares dated 5 Dec 1685 and was taken out of "the great patent" for 2050 acres granted William Oldis and Robert Ruffen.
Wit; Arthur Smith, Richard Pope and George Williamson
Rec: 24 Sep 1722 Henry (X) West

To some extent, Anthony is more mysterious than his father John.
The latter did leave a will naming a son; the former, evidently, did
not make a will and name anybody. Yet there is enough documentary
and circumstantial evidence, albiet sparse, to link Anthony as the
probable 2nd generation forebear of those who follow in this work.

Notes for ANTHONY HERRING:
1648-1715

In April 1694 Anthony of Lower Parish of Isle of Wight paid 2500 pounds of
tobacco to William West and wife Rebecca for 200 acres on Blackwater River
land in Lower Parish adjacent to John Smith and Will Westway.
Isle of Wight Co. Quit Rent (yearly property tax) Roll of 1714 list Anthony
paying tax on 200 acres. Anthony died sometime between then and the 1820
census. He did not leave a will.
One deed cites some family relationships and others suggest it. There were
several males in the family and not enough land to go around so John and
Samuel left for Chowan Co. NC. His son Anthony remained in I of W for close
to 20 years after his brothers went to NC but in this time left links to
brothers Abraham and Daniel and then when moving to NC with John and Samuel.
These brothers as records show, clustered together, moved together, signed
documents together.

Note: Abstracts of Duplin County, NC Deeds, Book 1A, p. 8
p. 85. Daniel Herring to Stephen Herring, both of Duplin Co., 25 Oct 1783, for 110 pds. specie 3A on the NS of Goshen Swamp & on BS of Herring's Branch incl. a grist mill on it, the sd. Daniel Herring having had an order of the Court for the sd. mill Aug 1766. Wit: Arthur Herring, William O'Daniel, Alex (X) O'Daniel. Oct. Ct. 1784.

Herring Highlights II: Daniel's linkage as a son of Abraham Herring is based on interactions with his "brother" Abraham in Duplin County. They seemed to move together from Bertie County, and they were closely connected in deeds. A complicated Duplin County deed of 23 Dec 1794 suggests that Daniel and Abraham (then both dead) probably were brothers, links them to the Whitfield and O'Daniel families, and shows the families' interactions.
William & Elizabeth (Goodman) Whitfield had 10 children, among them, Sarah and Charity, had patented 300 acres on Goshen Swamp near Herring's Mill Branch. At one time or another both Daniel & Abraham had held deeds to this property, conveyed by William Whitfield. Abraham conveyed the land to Daniel Herring who, in turn, conveyed it to Owen O'Daniel, the son of Frederick and Charity (Whitfield) O'Daniel. In 1794, Owen O'Daniel married a Charity Herring on 16 June 1781.
For years books have indicated after the death of Sarah (Whitfield) Herring, Daniel married widowed sister Charity (Whitfield) O'Daniel, and by her had sons Benjamin & Whitfield Herring. Horace Fussell, Jr. a descendant of Daniel, found this to be false. Charity's husband Frederick O'Daniel died between 1761 and 1773, and Charity remained a widow until after 1780. By then both Benjamin and Whitfield Herring were adults.
The mill branch mentioned in the deed above figured in an earlier deed. On 25 Oct 1783, Daniel Herring sold 3 acres, including the grist mill, to his son Stephen for 110 L. Samuel had operated the grist mill since 1766. Daniel is in the patriot index as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Note: The Heritage of Craven County, North Carolina, p. 167:
Herrings of Clear Run and Black River
John Herring came to Virginia from England in 1642. He died in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, in 1672, leaving his widow, Marjorie, and an adult son, Anthony of Lower Parish, Isle of Wight. In 1715, John Herring (presumed son of Anthony) was assigned a patent of land in the area which in 1722 became Bertie Parish of Albemarle County, North Carolina, by George and Katherine Morbe (Marlee?), very probably the parents of his wife Catherine. In Bertie (and later on the Neuse River) he lived near and was associated with Samuel, Anthony and others of the Herring name who were also natives of Isle of Wight and very probably his brothers.
In 1738 John Herring received a grant of land in what is now Lenoir County, but which was then part of Craven and subsequently Johnston, on Bear Creek near the present boundary of Wayne, not far to the northeast of Cliffs of Neuse. The following year he was appointed a justice of the Craven court. He became sheriff of old Johnston, which then reached from Craven up the Neuse River valley to the Virginia border, after it was erected from Craven, for the period 1747-51. He represented Johnston in the Colonial Assembly in the session 1749-50-1752, and was instrumental in obtaining passage of the acat creating Duplin County, including the area now in Sampson, from the upper portion of New Hanover in 1749-50. Among his children were John, Jr., Simon, Benjamin and Joshua.
John Herring, Jr., owned land in Bertie as early as 1729. He is on record in Craven as early as 1740, when he registered his cattle brand. His wife, Rebecca, received a deed of gift from her father, Cornelius Loftin, for a slave named Dido. He served as a constable "from Stonington Creek to Little River...including all of the inhabitants of Bear Creek and Falling Creek" in 1743 in Craven (now Wayne-Lenoir). He was appointed a vestryman of Sain Grabriel's Parish (Duplin) in 1749/50. He received a grant of lands at Clear Run on Black River in 1754 on the border between New Hanover and Duplin. The boundary between the two counties was in dispute for a number of years and he appears on record in both counties. His sons, John Herring III and Richard, who had grown to maturity in Craven-Johnston, and their sisters Sarah and Martha, came to Clear Run with their parents. Richard appears as an adult in the New Hanover court m inutes in 1760.
John Herring, III, son of John, Jr., was the executor of his father's will in 1774, but he and his wife died in the next decade, leaving two young daughters, Darcus and Magaret, and a son John IV, wards of Enoch Herring, eldest son of Richard, in 1791. The two daughters died before maturity. John IV married a Strickland in Johnston County and eventually moved to Indiana, where their descendants now live.
Richard Herring, son of John, Jr., along with John DeVane and James White, was commissioned by the Provincal Congress to establish a gun factory for the Patriot cause during the Revolution, which produced a number of small arms abefore it was destroyed by the Tories. He married Sarah Anders, of Bladen County. In 1767 he was appointed justice of the New Hanover court and in 1778 justice of the Duplin court. He was a signer of the Duplin Oath of Allegiance and Declaration of Abjuration. On the erection of Sampson from Duplin in 1784, he was appointed to the commission "to fix on a centrical and convenient place to erect the public buildings in the said county of Sampson." In 1785, he was appointed to the commission to establish the town of Lisburn "near the confluence of the Cohera and Six Runs where those streams make Black River.
The genealogy of the family of John Herring, Jr., is given in the book by Jamres R. Sloo and his wife, Pauline Herring Sloo, published in 1941. A summary of the earlier generations follows:
The children of John Herring, Jr., and his wife Rebecca Loftin Herring were: John III, Richard, Sarah and Martha. John III was the father of John IV, Darcus and Margaret. The two daughters of John III died in childhood, but John IV married Elizabeth Strickland and eventually settled in Indiana.
Richard and his wife Sarah Anders were the parents of Enoch, who married Margaret Anders; Joh, who married Basheba Sessions; Gabriel, who married Janet Anders; Stephen, who married Dicey Scott; Mary and Ann, who married Edward Spearman.
Sarah married John Treadwell, and they were the parents of John Treadwell, Jr., who married Ann Dodd; Miriam, who married George DeVane; Elizabeth, who married Isaac Poitevant; Zilpah, who married Abraham Moulton, Jr., Lucretia, who married Thomas Rogers; Charlotte, who married William Robinson, and Mary who married Shadrach Wooten.
Martha married Edmund Hawes, and they were the parents of John Hawes, who married Hannah Anders, and Samuel Hawes, who married Ann Julia Davis.
Sources: Early Virginia Immigrants---Cavaliers & Pioneers---Colonial Records---State Record & Court Minutes. Dallas Herring

Source: Horace Fusssell, Jr.:
John Herring sailed from Bristol in 1642. His name was spelled Herringe.

Source: The Simon Herring Line Report of North Carolina Research on microfilm at Mesa Family History Center:
John Herring was born in or near the City of London about 1680. John, and his brother, Samuel, settled first in Isle of Wight County, Va., the sourthern parish called Newport. The Herrings were planters and decided some time later to move south where the soil offered a brighter promise. The first known public record of a Herring in North Carolina is the conveyance of 350 acres of land in Chowan Precinct of Albemarle County from George Morlee and wife to Jno. Herring of Isle of Wight County, Va., 18 Oct 1715. The Herrings lived along the Cashie (accepted spelling) River and adjacent to the Roquist (accepted spelling) Pocosin, both still in present day Bertie County.
When John Herring took up land in North Carolina the province was just emerging from the Cary Rebellion and the Indian uprisings. Many people had been killed, many had left, and immigration had practically ceased. A large proportion of the houses and barns had been burned, much of the livestock and cattle killed or carried away, and vast stretches of land laid waste. Trade had almost ceased to exist.

Note: ABSTRACT OF NORTH CAROLINA WILLS - Cat. no 67-28615 Microfiche in Tremonton, Utah Gen. Lib.
Samuel Herring's Will 1750 Johnston County, North Carolina
He mentions children Anthony Herring, Stephen Herring, Michael Herring, Barthena Herring. Leaves "the plantation wheron I now live,
my wife to have her lifes time in it." to beloved son Michael Herring.
22nd day of October (1750)

Note: "Whitfield Record" from North Carolina
William Whitfield came from England the early part of the 18th century, married Elizabeth Goodman in 1713, eventually moved to Rockford, Lenoir Co., N.C.
They had four sons and six daughters. Two of the daughters are in our line.
Mary Whitfield married John Grady, had a large family, among them, Charity Grady who married Michael Herring. Their daughter Nancy married Jonathan Keathley, and their daughter Annie Keathley married Alexander O'Daniel. Annie is our line and is buried in the Walnut Grove Baptist Cemetery in Gibson County, Tennessee.
Charity Whitfield married Frederick O'Daniel and their son William is the father of Alexander (above) who married Annie Keathley.
This same info was also in our family records.

Note: ABSTRACT OF NORTH CAROLINA WILLS - Cat. no 67-28615 Microfiche in Tremonton, Utah Gen. Lib.
Samuel Herring's Will 1750 Johnston County, North Carolina
He mentions children Anthony Herring, Stephen Herring, Michael Herring, Barthena Herring. Leaves "the plantation wheron I now live, my wife to have her lifes time in it." to beloved son Michael Herring.
22nd day of October (1750)

!DEATH WILL PROBATED "ABSTRACT OF NORTH
CAROLINA WILLS" CAT NO. 67-28615 MICROFICHE
IN TREMONTON, UTAH GEN. LIB
________________
Herring Highlights by James Grimwood
page 17, 30
Born ca 1682 Isle of Wight., Co, VA
Mar ca 1704 Ann Williams
Died ca Nov 1750 Johnston Co., NC

Page 32
Samuel Herring's Will 1750 Johnston County, North Carolina
In the name of God Amen
I, Sam'l Herring of the County of Johnston and Province of North
Carolina being sick but of perfect mind. . . do constitute and ordain
this my last will and testiment as follows.
First of all I desire all my debts to be paid Charges and Discharges.
Item. I give to my well beloved son Anthony Herring my grey horse.
Item. I give to my well beloved son Stephen Herring two young
negroes a boy and a girl Cesar and Cate.
Item. I give to my well beloved son Michael Herring two young
negroes a boy and a girl named Cain and Fillis.
Item. I give to my well beloved daughter Barthena Herring one
young negro girl named Ginney.
Item. I give unto my well beloved son Michael Herring the plantation
wheron I now live, my wife to have her lifes time in it.
Item. I give the rest of my negroes, household goods, and chattels to
be equally divided among all my children after my wife's decease or
widowhood, one grey mare only excepted. She I give and bequeath to
my son-in-law Jn'o Connerly. I do also constitute and appoint my
well beloved son Anthony Herring to be the whole and sole executor
of this my last will and testiment . . . in witness whereof I have
aforeunto set my hand and fixed my seal this 22d day of October . . .
Signed and sealed in presence of us
Anthony Herring Sam'll Herring "his mark"
Joseph Herring

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Note: Name also seen as Melinda Ann Higgason.

Note: 1920 Harrison Co. Tx census:
Annie L Power ..50 ..ALA ..VA ..ALA name written "Powers"
Kelcie Power ..19 ..TX
Marguerite Power ..17 ..TX
Elbert Power ..15 ..TX
Joe Power ..13 ..TX
Mildred Power ..10 ..TX
Henry Power .. 8 ..TX

Note: 1870 Dawson Co. GA census:
Runda Vaughters...36...Farmer.....GA
Eliza Vaughters....12....GA
Mary Vaughters....11....GA
George Vaughters....9....GA
Martha J Vaughters....8...GA
Julia Ann Vaughters....7...GA
Henry Vaughters....6....GA
Hirum Vaughters....5....GA
Jane Vaughters....73....GA

1880 Dawson Co. GA census:
MARINDA VAUGHTERS, HEAD B. ..age 42
Eliza Vaughters...........22
George Vaughters..........19
Julia Vaughters...............15
(William) Henry Vaughters.....13
Hiram Vaughters.............12
Lucas F. Vaughters.............5

Note: 1920 Temple Ward, Bell, Texas census:
Frank Hieronymus ..48 ..Ark. ..KY ..MO
Alice Hieronymus ..47 ..TX ..MS ..TX
Charles Hieronymus ..19 ..TX
Noble Hieronymus ..14 ..TX
Eliza Slocomb ..71 ..TX ..GA ..NC ..mother-in-law

1930 Queens, New York census:
Charles Hieronymus ..29 ..TX ..ARK ..TX ..the name is written "Hurdanamous"
Margarte Hieronymus ..27 ..TX ..TX ..TX
Charles G Hieronymus .. 6 ..TX
John R Hieronymus .. 3 ..TX

Note: Military Service: War of 1812: one of Col. Daniel Boone's noted scouts of "The Missouri Mounted Rangers"
Military Service: 21 APR 1836 Served in Co. C, Ist Regt, Texas Volunteers, during the Battle of San Jacinto

Note: 1870 Orleans, NY census:
Elijah Hiscock ..74 ..CT
Laura Hiscock ..73 ..NH ..invalid
James Hiscock ..43 ..NY ..laborer
Ann Hiscock ..36 ..NY

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