ANALYSIS OF THE MANY JOHN ALLISONS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA


Name                     1740       1745       1750       1755       1760       1765       1770       1780        1785
John Allison            a    b             c  d     e          f   g  h      i jk l m n o p q r  s  t u   v           w       x y

a=Ephraim McDowell John McDowell John Kerr (militia)
b=John McDowell David Dryden William Hall Alexander McClure James Moore Robert Young (militia)
b=in Lancaster County PA
c=Whistle Creek on North Branch of James River, James Young (already owns land)
c=operate a ferry on North Branch of James River, Halbert McClure
d=North Branch of James River, Gilbert McClure, his wife was Jean Allison (buys 291 acres)
d=gave affidavit in Lancaster Co, PA on a 1737 note, William Caldwell, Francis Beatty
e=John Dickson, John Kerr, James Henderson (buy 100 acres) This was in extreme NE corner of Beverly tract, son John would go there
e=Buffalo Creek of James River, James Campbell, Michael Johnson, James Trimble, Alexander Beggs, Silas Hart (signer)
f=George Henderson, William Miller, David Miller (signer)
f=John Sproul, William Byers, Matthew Vance, Campbell’s schoolhouse, Samuel Allison (signer)
f=Mill Creek of James River (adjoining Robert Allison), Robert Poage, Samuel Walker, John Poage, Elizabeth Page (buys 195 acres)
f=Mill Creek of James River, Robert Armstrong, John Armstrong (previously owned then sold to Armstrong)
g=North Branch of James River, Joseph Walker, Gilbert Campbell, John Moore, William Byers (sells 291 acres)
g=Robert Allison, Robert Huston, Alexander McClure, Nathaniel McClure, William Hall, Thomas Paxton, John Stevenson (resident)
h=John Buchanan, James Allison (signer) (related to James, both late from PA) Is this James elder and brother James that moved to Carolina?
i=Robert Young, James Thompson, widow Long (appointed road surveyor)
i=North Branch at James River, widow Allison, Alexander McClure, John Stevenson (land boundary, crosses river so John Allison)
j= North Branch, Great Road, John McCown, Robert Erwin, widow Allison, River to River (land boundary, crosses river so John Allison)
k=Cedar Creek at Forks of James River, Hall, Poage, Campnbell, Cloyd, Buchanan, McDonald (land owner)
l=Samuel McClure, Baptist McNabb, Nathaniel McClure (signer)
l=Shenandoah River, John and Lucy Kerr (buy 10 acres) (land owner already there)
l=North Branch of James River, Alexander McClure, William Hall, Robert Poage, Robert Huston (buys 370 acres)
m=Middle Shenandoah River, Andrew Kerr (bro of John Kerr) (buy 77 acres)
m=George Poage, James Hamilton, Davidson, Edward Rutledge, John Kerr, John Allison’s ford (land boundary)
n=John Stewart, Nathan Gilliland, William Kerr, James Finley, Robert Finley (signer)
o=North Branch of James River, Robert Allison, James Buchanan, Andrew Hays, James McKee, William Patton, James Thompson (census)
p=Andrew Hall, James Buchanan, Robert Allison, James Anderson (census)
p=Mill Creek of James River, James Gilmore, John Poage, Charles Allison (sell 195 acres to Charles Allison)
q=Thomas Paxton, John Paxton, Nathaniel Evans, Moses McClure, James Campbell (hemp grower)
r=James River, John Taylor, Thomas Ratliff, James Allison, James Trimble (signer)
r=(hemp grower)
r=in a case with Charles Allison
r=defendants with Charles Allison, case against Mary McClure
s=Borden tract, Andrew Hays, Samuel McDowell (buy 190 acres)
s=Middle Shenandoah River, John Kerr, William Kerr, James Laird, Edward Rutledge, Alexander Walker (boundary)
t=North Branch of James River, John Moore, Joseph Walker, Andrew Hall, John Paxton, James Thompson (boundary – John Allison ferry)
t=James Cowan, Charles Campbell, John Shields, Thomas Vance, John Campbell (signer)
t=Forks of James River, James Gilmore, James Allison - buy 400 acres
u=Middle Shenandoah River, James Laird, John Hinds, John Kerr (boundary)
u=North Branch of James River, William Ramsey, Andrew Hall, John Thompson, Hannah Allison (sell 204 acres – with wife Janet)
u=John Patterson, Thomas Patterson (signer)
u=New River, William Foster, John Newlands, Cripple Creek
v=son William Allison, wife Lucie Allison (sell 92 acres) (part of 245 acre tract to John Allison 1770) – must be on Shenandoah River
v=John Allison to Charles Allison, Forks of James River (sold 110 acres) not brother since he was long at Middle River
v=(1773) John Allison, Charles Allison, William Campbell, Alexander Campbell, Robert Campbell, south fork of Holston River (buy 450 acres)
·         the Campbell men were known to be of Beverly tract – William and Mary Allison Campbell with uncles Alexander and Robert to Holsten circa 1770 then to Washington County, NC circa 1779 then to Fayette County, KY circa 1784.  This all done with John and Charles Allison in 1771 Botetourt Co tax – John Allison and son William, Charles Allison, and Robert, Alexander, and William Campbell
·         the selling of North Branch land in 1770 appear to show John Allison the elder did make this move…John sold land then moved to Botetourt?
·         OR DID IT? John Allison followed with this group and his will in 1791 KY reveals a wife Isabella and children Halbert, Sarah, and Isabella.  This would show that the John could have been John, son of Robert…because John, son of Robert was with his brother In Botetourt but then disappeared after 1770 while the other brothers stayed there.  Since Charles was in the area and John, son of Robert, possibly yearning for adventure, tagged along with his cousin
·         John Allison in 1771 tax record has old son William, this could be Robert Allison’s grandson but John would have had to have been born about 1733 to have a son William as a 1771 titheable (seems like a problem)
·         However, a John Allison died in Woodford Co KY in 1791 and researchers believe it is the same that traveled with Charles.  But, John Allison of Middle River, the son of the original John Allison, moved to Kentucky about this time…
·         Could be that John Allison of Shenandoah was actually son of Robert, and made the move to KY in 1791 and died.  That would free up the older John Allison to have followed with his son…
·         But John Allison the elder was in the fee records and was noted in those records the same way (the men in these records were documented to have retained a specific designation to differentiate them from others of the same name) as “living on Borden land” from 1761 to 1780 (the John and Charles Allison were in NC in 1779)
·         My first option, the John Allison that went with Charles Allison was his cousin, the son of Robert.  This John Allison was the same that died in 1791 in KY and had a wife Isabella and child Halbert.
·         My next option, if the first proves to be incorrect, is that the John Allison that went with Charles was the John, illegitimate son of Martha, born 1746
·         Next was that it was John brother of Charles and the John in Shenandoah was either John son of Robert or John son of Martha
w=son Andrew Allison, James Kerr, John Kerr (census) – must be Shenandoah River
x=Thomas Caul, William Hinds, Joseph Moore (signer)
y=Edward Rutledge, James Agnew, Thomas Carel (buys land) (this is John Allison Jr) – must be on Shenandoah River
y=(census) (this is John Allison Jr)


John and Jean/Janet Byers – John Allison (ca1705-c1756/59) – appears lived on 291 acres on North Branch then bought 195 acres on Mill Creek before died, sold the 291 acres.
John Sr and Lucy Kerr/– Middle Shenandoah River – to KY 1792
John and Janet - North Branch of James River
John Jr and Lucy Rutledge – (c1756-?), son of John Allison Sr. and Lucy Kerr
John Allison – Cedar Creek and Forks of James, Tinker Creek
John and Charles connection – brothers or cousins Mill Creek at North Branch of James River – must be son of John since started this 1754
There was a John Allison born 1746 illegitimate to Martha Allison that would have been in the North Branch area, would have been 21 in 1767 (his mother moved to KY in early 1780s
If the John that was with Charles in 1771 and 1773 was a father-son, then it appears John moved south. 
BIGGEST QUESTION – WHO WAS THE WIDOW ALLISON OF 1759 and 1760?

Could a John Allison have come to North Branch early then died around 1755 – widow Allison
Children Robert and John Allison – problem – still 3 John Allisons

Middle River
William Allison son of John Allison Sr of Middle River
John Allison Jr son of John Allison Sr of Middle River
John Allison Sr (c1734->1792KY) married Lucy Kerr (c1736)
Lucy Kerr was sister of William Kerr
Lucy Kerr was daughter of John Kerr
Lucy Kerr sister Elizabeth Kerr married ? McClure
William Allison (c1765) married Jean Young 1789
John Allison Jr (c1756) married Lucy Rutledge (c1756-1792) married 1776 – children John and James by 1787



(Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)

1761 – John Allison was living on Borden land (stated to separate from others of same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1761 – John Allison was living on Middle River of Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1766 – John Allison was living on Borden land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1766 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1767 – John Allison was living on Borden land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1768 – John Allison was living on Borden land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1768 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1769 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1770 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1771 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1771 – John Allison was living in Botetourt County (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1772 – John Allison was living on Borden’s land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1772 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1773-1774 – John Allison on list of levies returned bad by John Smith
1774 – John Allison was living on Middle River Shenandoah River (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1774 – John Allison was living on Borden’s land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1779 – John Allison was living on Borden’s land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1780 – John Allison was living on Borden’s land (stated to separate from others of the same name) (Fee Book Charges note a charge for services rendered to county.  The records were kept by clerks and noted a mark of identification)
1781 – John Allison and son Andrew Allison on list of titheables in Alexander Robertson’s list near James Kerr (this is John Allison at Middle River)