They Came to the Mountains: ANGLIN

A step back from Yancey Co. NC was the ancestral home of Isaac Anglin's Father's home,
on land that was to become the small mountain town and County Seat, Phillippi, West Virginia
in Barbour Co, W. VA. The covered bridge crosses the river where the old Ferry originated by our ancestor
William Anglin, (son of Adrian Anglin of Virginia,) once crossed. The post: http://theycametothemountains.blogspot.com/2014/03/this-lovely-covered-bridge-was-not-in.html

THE TREE

(possible father named Willliam is Debatable)

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The earliest spellling/misspelling I found of the name Anglin was Anglen. So far I have also found it spelled with an E on the end - Angline - by family members that actually used the spelling. However, I will show early records of how Adrian Anglin spelled it himself. And I will discuss other spellings/misspellings/mistranscribed versions as well. I will discuss DNA testings here to help determine which line of Anglins were actually our line.
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William Anglin, Sr., son of Issaac Anglin (our first Anglin Ancestor in NC,) and father of William Anglin Jr. who was wounded at Chickamauga Ga. during the Civil War, left the administration of his Will to R. B. Anglin and Robert McIntosh.

The link on the side page takes you to the actual online Probate Records of Yancey NC for this era. Searching carefully through hundreds of pages, I have already found over 200 records which in some way refer to our ancestors and their families. In them we find that they purchased from the estates, were the administrators to the families for the process of their estates, and may have had other official capacities as well as Sherriffs, Judges, lawyers, and records keepers. The result of finding these details is that you 1.) know exactly what they were doing at some point on that exact day, and 2.) you get a sense of who were there near familly and friends, neighbors and contemporaries. It helps to place them on a timeline with other individuals who remain only names until you see them interaction as human beings.

The 1940 Census recently became available for review and download. Today, (August 15, 2012) I downloaded 4 pages where mother and her neighbors lived at that time. The place is Prices Creek, Banks Creek area on what is now Will Anglin Road in Yancey Co. NC. On the first page are Mom and her parents, siblings and cousins, aunts, uncles. On the following two pages are other family names. Notice Robert McIntosh at age 60, who is mentioned in the documents above. If I have figured it out correctly, Robert lived across the road and up the hill from Robert and Katie Anglin. I am still trying to make the exact connections to Robert McIntosh and who his ancestral family were. But I am sure that William Anglin's wife, Sarah (Sallie) McIntosh was directly related to this family. I am missing a generation of names and when I get them sorted, I can clarify the relationships.

Mother's parents, Hobart and Nora Roland are living next door to her grandfather, Robert Anglin, and two of her Aunts, Bertie Anglin and Virgie Ogle. The Banks family are also Aunt and Uncle. Just above them are Willie and Eura Anglin, with their children.

On this page we find, Robert McKintosh and Rabe Anglin families. (See Donna Anglin Toncic's pages)

The Gardner family above is related to Sarah Caroline Gardener Roland Roland Ray, who is our Ancestral Grandmother, who married Jasper Roland and whose son was William Bailous Roland, Hobart Roland's father, and mother's Grand-father. In other words these are mothers Gardener cousins, by way of her great grandmother Sally Roland.

More Anglin Cousins....

Above are Anglin and Silver Cousins, on pg 26 of the Yancey Co. Listing of the US Census, posted through Ancestry.com. Link I will go check out the Roland documents in a few days. In this way I can put up the most recent census documents available for Mother and her siblings and cousins, and will work my way backwards toward her ancestors.

Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Price Creek, Yancey, North Carolina; Roll: T627_2991; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 100-12. Source Information:Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

Description: The 1940 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1940, with details about a household’s occupants that include birthplaces, occupations, education, citizenship, and income
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WILLIAM ANGLIN, son of ADRIAN ANGLIN of Virginia

The first time we know of the name William Anglin, it is in Virginia. His father was Adrian Anglin, and he and his brothers grew up in what they knew as Virginia. But the western expansion into the mountains of Virginia, posed the same problems for the Virginian as it did for our North Carolina fore-fathers. The farther into the western territories they moved and held land, the more difficult it was to carry on government, because traveling to the distant county seats was difficult and treacherous. As a result, the counties were divided and subdivided and eventually the states began to be divided as well. We all know that Virginia became, in essence, Virginia and West Virginia. William Anglin held land in what eventually became Barbour Co., West Virginia, and the the land he owned eventually became the county seat. The name of that town became Phillipi, W.VA and there was a covered bridge built to span the river where William and his sons built their pioneer homesteads. He is mentioned in the history section of the Barbour County online info and in many other places as well. Jimmy and I would like to visit this place and be able to stand where our pioneer ancestor once stood. Here and on the blog, I want to share more as we plan and prepare for our trip to see the bridge.

Links to Phillipi West Virginia History

Barbour Co. history page lists th e history of the area begining with the Earliest known Indian heritage to the area. Under the heading, Barbour County Seat William Anglin's Ford over the Tygart River is mentioned. At that time, it was known as Anlin's Ford. A Mr. Booth bought William's land and the crossing became known as Booth's Ferry. In the 1800's a covered bridge replaced the ferry, and has since been restored. William's son Samuel had lived across the river at the time of Anglin's Ford and helped his father run the business. This was a time before Anglin's came into Yancey Co., NC. My earliest history finds him with his land in what was Virginia at the time, in 1873. http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Barbour/barhistory.html
Barbour family history briefly tells the story of why the hill, owned by Samuel on the west bank of Tygart River is known as "no business hill." It also notes that before the town was named Phillipi, it was known as Anglins' Ford.
The Covered Bridge at Anglin's Ford Crossing and the history of it's restoration is briefly given, along with it's Civil War significance.
SHG Resources' History of Barbour Co. reiterates that the town of Phillipi was once known as Anglin's Ford prior to 1843, in honor of the man who owned the land, William Anglin.

THE TREE

(possible father named Willliam is Debatable)

The timeline:
William Anglin - from Europe?

Adrian Anglin - Early 1700's in Virginia
William Anglin - mid to late 1700's in Virginia and W. Virginia
Isaac Anglin - Born in W. Virginia - established our line in NC, late 1700's
William Anglin - Early 1800's Buncombe and Burke Co's, NC, Mid-century as Yancey
William Anglin - Mid century to the Civil War, died from wounds received at Chicka mauga, GA in the battle of Chickamauga, buried at the Confederate Cemetery, Marietta
Robert Anglin - Late 1800's to early 1900's, still keepers of the land Great Grandfather William aquired when it was still Burke/Buncombe Co. NC.
Nora Anglin Roland - Born and raised on that same land, Early 1900's, she lived almost a century.

ANGLIN RESEARCH NOTES:

WILLIAM AND ADRIAN ANGLIN of the early 1700's
Researchers all over, whose oldest known ancestor is "Adrion Anglen", disagree on who his father actually is. Most agree that at least some legitamate documents name a William as his father. There was, in the immediate area near where Adrian lived, a William who is believed to be from France who, as headwright, was given land in 1705 in VA, and who traveled through England to America, where he lived in the area of his land grant the rest of his life. Some believe this is Adrian's father. There is however another line of Anglens, living in the same area whose presence and naming patterns confuse things a bit. They also have a William whose birthday and wife's name are almost the same as our Adrian's son William. This William settled in Caswell County, NC, and long was thought by researchers to be the ancestor of Anglins in Yancey County and in Forsyth Co. Ga. as well. But the connections were made only with difficulty. It is entirely possible that the headright William might have been HIS grandfather,(Caswell Co., NC's William,) not ours. *Or possibly he was the grandfather to both. It is said that the documents for this county were burned during the Civil War and it is nearly impossible to make all the connections finite. Since we will later discuss that Adrian's documentation, includes a court record, written in Adrian's hand, requesting that he be freed from his indenture, it confuses me that Adrian would be expected to have a grandfather already in the country. So conflicts still arise in my mind as to whether William and Sophronia are his parents.

One alternate way to make this definition is through DNA research, which for the Anglin family is gaining more tested results every month. A clearer picture is forming through the actual bloodlines than through records in this case. Although I read in some researchers notes that the aforementioned William who is not our Grandfather, is also not related to us; that assumption is not exactly correct. The markers that distinguish our line from his are different, but most of the markers that make us both Anglins are the same. This is a fact that indicated to me that somewhere back there, we had the same ancestors.*

One thing is certain. The name which is said to have been on the ship manifest for the elder William Anglin was Guillaume Englen. That is French. Adrion is French (pronounced Ah DREE ON). The origin of the name reguardless of where Adrian's father came from is French. After researching the Anglin name in other areas of the world, I found the families always originated in France. Even the ones whose name goes back for hundreds of years in Ireland, came from France. All the Englens" I could find in America that still spell the name that way, came from the Scandinavian countries, but their ancestors came from France. All the Anglens, Anglins, and Englens and Angels that came from England originated in France. Many Anglins settled in Canada and their ancestors are from France. So whether we can trace the exact names or not, the name itself came from France and it means "Angel". The direct translation for Englen (pronounced ON GLON) is Angel. A further testament to that is found within our family itself. There are branches within our own line who spell their name Angel, indicating someone back there knew what it meant. There are neighbors in Yancey county who descend from those who spelled it Angel.

There are at least two records I saw transcribed that I couldn't copy, where Adrion's name was spelled Englen. Even in these notes, I have used Adrion's original spelling, which is French because in the earliest records that is how he is found - Adrion Englen. However, his court record we mentioned is signed Adrian Anglin. So whether Americanized by that time, or a disconnect with the French, who often had connections with the very Indian bands they were fighting, or the early records were written by frenchmen...we don't know. But an awareness of the changes of name spellings, once again becomes necessary to find the documents.

There is one line of researchers who mistakenly started with the Anglicised form of the name - Anglen, and went backwards doing research in France seeking ancestors with names like Angloin, Aglon, etc. Their mistake is that they did not correctly translate the language from Old English back to french. Because in Old English, it does not begin with an A. (See the book for a page with the online dictionary definition.)

ADRIAN ~

Other spellings of Adrian's name occur as Adrion, Adren and Edren. Anglin also occurs as Angling, Anglen, Angline and Englen.

When Adrian's name began to be spelled Angline is not clear. In thinking about the history, it became obvious to me that one might not wish in the years between 1745 and 1776 to have a name that endeared you to the French. One might wish to change his name to be more like the Scotch-Irish whose neighbors were in much abundance. The spelling may have occurred simply by the way those Scotch-Irish would have pronounced it. I had always thought the Anglins had to be Irish, because of the heaviness in their brogue that is still heard when the older members of the Yancey County speak. And the red hair, freckles and distinct faces, look far more "Islander than mainland" to me. It is yet possible that we may find out, as only one of the researchers believes, that our Anglins first had a bit of living done in Ireland before coming to America.

However, I must also consider that Grandmother, Sally Anglin was a McIntosh by birth, and they were definitely Scotch or Irish. So any accent might be attributed to her.

Although the connections to William as his father are not conclusive, there simply are no other pesons in the running to be his father. They did live fairly close to one another. So the estimation is good enough to enter him into the record as research continues. Evidence in other researchers records is mounting to make a fair surmise that he will in fact be confirmed as Adrian's father. Researchers matching DNA from Europe may eventually tell us exactly where they originated. So many people who departed from England had traveled there to come to America from all over Europe and the British Isles. Our Silver ancestors for instance made sure that people knew they descended from the Easten Regions of what was known as Russia by putting Russia as the home of their parents for at least a couple of generations after coming to America. But place of origin could be a source of grief if wars between countries erupted. France was once our friend and once our enemy in the 16 to 1800s. Just as we experienced with Russia, Japan and Germany in our own 20th and 21st centuries. Also, in the early records of this family it is imperative that one research the county lines. Counties changed rapidly in the early formation of our country. No one goes back and changes the records to read the new county name. You simply have to know the right county to look in, or you must look in adjacent counties until you find the proper records. Often they are on exactly the same plot of land, just under a different county name. ( I harp on this a lot, but it is absolutely necessary to find the records.)

A number of Anglin researchers list the information from the DNA Project which has found a recent contributer to the project whose genes match ours closely, and who can follow his line back into Ireland. This substantiates most expectations that our line would be from Ireland. Most believe that the name at least has French origins, and indicates that certain lines of the family have some French roots somewhere in history.

　

Although Angline appears in several records, those, written in Andrian's own hand, are spelled Anglin with no E.

THE DNA PROJECT

(copied in entirety here for better understanding)

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmparker/gen/Surname%20Reports/ang.htm (May 2011)

"Anglin-Anglen Surname Y-DNA Project http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmparker/AnglinDNA/index.html

Administrator: Karen Parker Co-Administrator: Joan Bulach

Group 3

We have results on descendants from three sons of Adrian: Adrian, Jr., Philip, and William, so from those results we can infer Adrian's haplotype, which is the same as A9's and A10's, both descendants of Adrian's son Philip. We can measure all results in Group 3 from this ancestral haplotype.

A35, descended from the Joshua Anglin who was married to Laurena, matches Group 3's ancestral haplotype exactly; he is clearly closely related to Adrian, and we can tell that he is descended from a son other than William.

A3 and A37 are third cousins descended from Daniel Benjamin Anglin, born 1806 in Georgia. Their results show that their most recent common ancestor, Daniel Benjamin Anglin, matches Group 3's ancestral haplotype exactly. And the results from A12 and A28, both descendants of Adrian, Jr., show that Adrian, Jr., matched the ancestral haplotype exactly. Since we know that A28 was not descended from Daniel Benjamin Anglin, we know that the mutation which A3 and A28 have in common is a parallel mutation, a coincidence, rather than a mutation inherited from a common ancestor of A3 and A28. The mutation which A3 and A28 share does not, therefore, help us narrow down the candidates for father of Daniel Benjamin Anglin, as we had hoped it would.

A27's earliest known ancestor was a William Anglin born about 1815 to 1820 in Kentucky, who died about 1849 in Illinois. He has the mutation to 10 at DYS 385a, which distinguishes him as a descendant of Adrian's son William.

A23, a descendant of the Philip Anglin (born about 1810 in Georgia) and Betsy Watkins, is now proven by DNA to be a descendant of Adrian, rather than the William of Caswell County, as some had thought. A23's results for DYS 389i and 389ii require a little explanation, however. He has DYS 389i=14 and DYS 389ii=29, while the ancestral haplotype for Group 3 has DYS 389i=13 and DYS 389ii=28. Although at first blush this appears to be a genetic distance of 2 between A23's haplotype and the ancestral haplotype, there is really only a genetic distance of 1, because the number stated for DYS 389ii is the sum of the repeats at the two locations for 389. In other words, DYS 389ii counts the mutation already counted at DYS 389i. Some other testing companies would have stated the results for A23 at DYS 389i and 389ii as 14 and 15 respectively, and would have stated the results for the ancestral haplotype at DYS 389i and 189ii as 13 and 15 respectively. Using that reporting convention, we can easily see that there is only a genetic distance of 1 between A23's haplotype and the ancestral haplotype.

We now have results from descendants of three different sons of William, the son of Adrian: A4, A7, and A25 descend from William's son Isaac, A14 descends from William's son Samuel and A18 descends from William's son Adrian. Each of these participants has the mutation from 11 to 10 at DYS 385a, and since William was their most recent common ancestor, we know that the mutation had to have occurred when Adrian begot William, and therefore this marker is a distinguishing characteristic of William's line. It is thought that the John Anglin who died about 1814 in Lee County, Virginia, is William's son, but the evidence is sketchy and circumstantial. It would be good, therefore, to find a participant descended from this John to either confirm or refute the conclusion that this John was William's son.

A25 has the 10 at DYS 385a confirming that he is descended from Adrian's son William. A25 also has a mutation from 16 to 17 at DYS 458. Looking at the Group 3 Descendants' Chart, we see that A25's closest relative among the participants is A7. Their most recent common ancestor is James, born 1783. Since A7 has the ancestral value of 16 at DYS 458, and A25 has 17 at that marker, we know that James, their most recent common ancestor had the ancestral value, i.e. 16. There are five generations from James to A25; that mutation had to occur in one of those generations, and we would have to test other descendants of James's son John to discover exactly where it occurred.

The close relationship between the descendants of Adrian's sons Philip and Adrian, Jr. and the descendants of the William who died in Harrison County, (West) Virginia provides clear and unambiguous proof that the William who died in Caswell County, North Carolina, was not the son of Adrian who died in Buckingham County, Virginia, and that Adrian's son William was the one who died in Harrison County, (West) Virginia. This is consistent with the "paper-trail" evidence that the William who died in Harrison County, (West) Virginia, lived near Adrian until Adrian died, and named his son Adrian, as did many of his descendants even down to the present day." From the Website. (see side bar for link to DNA PROJECT)
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ADRIAN/ADRION continued:

Debbie Cossey Wasserburger records :"The earliest record of Adrion being in Virginia comes from the Commissioners Court of Albemarle County when on 12 Sept 1746 he and eight other men were ordered to keep their road open and clear to the courthouse. He received land patents in VA 1.) 7-20-1748, 165 acres on both sides of Slate

River; 2) 3/3/1760 400 acres on Slate River and 3) 8-20-1760, 370 acres south of Slate River all being in Albemarle County, Virginia.

Buckingham County was created from Albemarle Co in mid 1770."

Note:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gabriel&id=I6456

In "Rogers Work In Progress" Rebecca notes similar to the above but adds that he was granted 200 acres by George II. Also she adds that he was a member of the French and Spanish Royal Families, an Admiral in the French Royal Navy before coming to America in 1740. She also notes his occupations as becoming a plantation owner, and also a constable.
(Some of her statements have supporting documents which I have seen in other places.)

Court records which sometimes mention his name, call him Constable.

I have the transcript for the Land Patent for 200 acres from King George. But I don't know the sources for the comment about royalty,or admiralty. At the time of the Land Patent, the county was known as Goochland. In fact a very large part of Virginia had been known as Goochland.

Land Patent to Adrian Anglin from King George II

It reads:

"Goochland County, Virginia

September 25, 1746

Adrian Anglin 200 Acres

George, the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Know ye that for divers good Causes and Considerations, but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of Twenty Shillings of good and lawful money, for our use, paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia, We have Given, Granted and Confirmed and by these presents for us, our Heirs and Successors do Give, Grant and Confirm unto Adrian Anglin one certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing Two hundred Acres lying and being in the County of Goochland on both sides of Slate River and Rocky Creek and bounded as followeth to wit. Beginning at a Pine Saaplin on the side of a Hill the lower side of the River and running thence new lines South sixty five Degrees West, one hundred and seventy eight Poles (to be continued. storm>)

Andian Anglin's "Petition for Freedom" has recently been found in historical documents stored by the state of Virginia. It is dated June 1721. It reads:

"Hanover County pt To the Worshipfull the Court of

the said County

Adrian Anglin humbly

Showeth

That your petitioner came as an Indentured

servant into this Colony for four years and as such

was sold by Capt Abra Lewis to John Ragland of this

County and that now his said time by Indenture

is expired notwithdtanding which his said Master

Ragland tho often required refuses yor petitioner

his freedom wherefore he prays the sd Ragland

may be summoned to Court to show cause why your

petr should not have his freedom according to

Law"

This document indicates that Adrian came to the colony of Virginia by at least 1716 or sooner, as an indentured servant, a means by which many young men came to America, in order to pay for their passage on a ship. Indenturing oneself to work for a givien period of time was very common even among young men who lived in the colonies, as a reasonable way to get started in life. Some also made commitments as apprentices. That was considered a priviledge, and was the equivalent of a technical education, placing you in a slightly higher status once freed than an indentured employment. Many indentured sought to be free, while many apprenticed sought to stay with their employers.

In addition, Adrian's will has been discovered and appears with the petition in the Anglin DNA Project Web Pages.

It lists his children who were included in the Will. Most were willed One Shilling Sterling. Two of the youngest boys, Adrian and Joseph were willed the land on which they lived, as was Mary his wife. Executors of the Will were Mary, his wife and Adrian, his son. I do not know which children were Elizabeth's and which were Mary's at this time, for the will does not distinguish.

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kmparker/AnglinDNA/Group3.htm

"1764 Buckingham Tax List Adrian Anglin (Constable) 0 White Tithable 0 Wheel Carriages 400 acres Virginia Tithables Anglin, Adran Buckingham 1773 1 Tithable Anglin, Jos Buckingham Anglin, Adrian Jr. Buckingham 1774 2 Tithable Anglin, Philip Buckingham 1773 1 Tithable Anglin, William Buckingham 1773 2 Tithable Anglin, Isaac Anglin, William Buckingham 1774 2 Tithable Anglin, Isaac Morris and Nettie Anglin 1426 E Nielson Mesa, Az 85204 962-1219 Lee & Julie Anglin 405 E Prince #910 Tucson, Az 85705 602-293-7067 "

In the above record note that there are, for the same date of 1773, A Joseph, Josiah, Joshua or similiar abbreviated Jos; a William Anglin, an Isaac Anglin, and a Phillip Anglin. In 1774 only William and Isaac are mentioned. Our Isaac would have only been age 13 and 14. Unlikely to be mentioned in the tithables yet. This Isaac would have been either a brother or cousin. There is also later a James who has gone ahead to Harrison Co Va, and to W.Va, whose lands on the Anglin Creed are recorded for generations to come. I believe these could be brothers to Andian Anglin Sr.

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Our ancestal line: Adrian, William, Isaac, William, William, Robert, Nora, etc.

Since I didn't know who to attatch notes about James to, allow this to foreshadow information about Adrian's son William and his son Isaac:

In the book, THE ANNALS OF BATH COUNTY (VA), on page 188, it says that a James Anglin lived until about 1756 at the mouth of Benson's Creek which was first called Anglin's Creek. James, it says "made a new home beyond the Alleghany." due to Indians and debt. But in the same paragraph is says: "We read of Isaac and other Anglins in that Quarter, and there is an Anglin's Run near the western line of Greenbrier. There appear to be strong family links between all of these.The Isaac this speaks of would not be our Isaac, but the man after whom he most likely was named. This tells me other Anglins had been in the area for some time.

In Barbour Co, W VA, Anglin's Ferry, now Philippi, was named for William Anglin, who first developed the land in the 1780's forward. William's son from his first wife, named Isaac, took his wife and family to Buncombe/Burke Co. NC, into the area which would eventually become Yancey, NC. Isaac named his son William after his father, and William also named his son William, and our line of the family had settled in the Price's Creek area, near Ball Creek, by the early 1800's. They remain there until the present, although the great grandson of our William of West Va, became a casualty of the Civil War.

But going back to the first William, Andrian's son in what was initially Virginia, but became W. VA, nearly 100 years earlier, we find there is plenty of evidence he was there - including a plaque at the courthouse square which makes it clear that the land the little town is built upon once belonged to William Anglin, our pioneer grandfather, who was among the earliest who pushed the boundaries of the new nation westward into the uncivilized wilderness of the last quarter of the 18th century.

WILLIAM ANGLIN ~ ADRIAN'S SON

Looking down the downriver side of the covered bridge.

Still in use after all these years, the bridge accommodates hundreds of cars and trucks each day,
which cross the Tygart River in both directions.

This sign on the courthouse lawn names our Ancestor William Anglin
to be the owner of the land upon which Phillipi was eventually built.

The length of the bridge is most emphasized by a picture from up river. From that same location, we look across the Tygart River to the present day Phillippi which still has buildings from the 1800s. There is also a museum near the bridge which was closed the day we were there. I can only imagine the joy of our William when he first saw this lovely valley land and realized it could be his to love and care for. I doubt he knew how difficult it would be to defend and develop, or what a legacy he would have to generations unborn.