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Hi Lois,
Are you a descendant of William Caldwell's? If so, then you are related to my wife's family. William Caldwell's wife Rebecca comes from the Parks/Littlejohn/Hanna family of Buffalo Creek, VA.
William Caldwell was born about 1706 wed Rebecca Parks. Rebecca Parks married "a Mr. Walkup" circa 1725 who died within the year and she then married William Caldwell, coming to America in 1727. Rebecca Parks is the sister of James Park who married Mary Fulton before moving into the Buffalo Settlement around 1740. They had three sons and three daughters all of whom were very dominant in the fight for freedom during the revolutionary war. This James Park died in 1769. Mary followed him in 1774. The three sons decided to move their families further South to the lower reaches of the Georgia colony and South Carolina.
James Parks
Spouse: Mary Littlejohn
b. abt 1721
d. aft 1774 Prince Edward Co., VA
children:
i. Mary Parks m. Robert Hanna - my wife's family
ii. Lt Joseph Littlejohn Park m. Elizabeth Sankey
iii. Margaret Parks m. Douglas Watson
iv. Catharine Parks m. Andrew Wallace
v. James Parks m. Mary Sankey
vi. Ezekiel Parks
The oldest child was daughter Mary, born in 1730. She married Robert Hanna in 1751. The oldest son, Joseph Littlejohn Park was born in 1734 and married Elizabeth Sankey, daughter of the Reverend Richard Sankey. Reverend Sankey, son-in-law of Reverend John Thomson, served as a minister at the Buffalo Settlement Church. He was a well known Presbyterian minister and his mission field was the Buffalo Settlement. Richard Sankey and Joseph Park were both among the first trustees of the newly formed Hampden-Sydney College in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1776 at Hampden-Sydney, VA. Margaret Park was the third child and was born in 1750. She married Douglas Watson in 1770 and they moved to Georgia. Youngest sister, Catherine was born in 1754. She married Andrew Wallace about 1774. They moved to Kentucky. The second son and the fifth child, James, was born 1756 in Prince Edward County. He first married Mary Sankey, sister to his brother’s wife Elizabeth and daughter of Reverend Richard Sankey.
Robert "Robin" Hanna was a friend of Thomas Jefferson's and his son Robert Jr. left SC in the Quaker Migration to become a Senator from the state of Indiana........abolitionist..........Underground Railroad and all that good Presbyterian stuff.
No wonder you know about Cub Creek?!!! Harry Truman once said, "The only new thing in the world is the history we don't know." ..... and it appears some folks don't want to know, huh?
“Carolina Cradle” is an absolute favorite of mine. My Rutherfords were in Western North Carolina for 3 generations and founded “Rutherford College” in Burke County along with the Brevards and Abernethys. I’m pretty sure these folks could read ;-)
til later ……….. cousin Gary
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