Born at Thorough Fare Plantation near Dickerson, Montgomery County, Maryland, the son of Robert and Mary (Willson) Masters; grandson of William W. Masters and Mary (Veatch) Masters, Thomas Wilson and Priscilla (Kent) Wilson; great-grandson of Robert Masters (and Constance Randolph Masters?), Nathan Veatch and Ann (Claggett) Veatch, Joseph Wilson and Frances (Hilleary) Wilson; Absalom Kent and Mary (Wadsworth) Kent; great-great-grandson of James Veitch, High Sheriff of the entire Province of Maryland, Lt. Col. Thomas Hilleary and Eleanor (Sprigg) Hilleary, Henry Kent and Martha (Brasseur/Brashears) Kent, William Wadsworth and Elizabeth (Claggett) Wadsworth.
THE NAME NOTLEY MASTERS
Thomas Notley (1610-1682) was the royal governor of Maryland, 1676-69. He lived in St. Mary's County and moved in some of the same circles with the Hillearys, Willsons, Claggetts, Bealls, Veitches and other relatives of the Masters family. Whether he was related to some degree is unknown, but he or one of his several namesakes likely was the godfather of Robert Masters or one of the other Masters.
One Thomas Notley is listed among the debts to the estate of Thomas Clagett (1703), Notley Masters' great-great-grandfather.
Notley Masters (1745-1819) had a grandson (son of his son Levi) named Angus Notley Masters (1836-1862), who was named for his two grandfathers, Notley Masters of Maryland and Angus McCurry (Jr.) of Georgia. In recent years, some descendants have begun showing the first Notley Masters (1745-1819) in their family trees online as being named Angus also. However, THERE IS NO RECORD SHOWING THAT THE FIRST NOTLEY MASTERS WAS EVER NAMED ANGUS -- No public record nor any pre-1900 private or family record. Nor has any member of the family of Gov. Thomas Notley of Maryland been found with the name Angus. The name Angus appears to be confined entirely to the McCurry family of Elbert County, Georgia, where Notley's son Levi Masters married his wife Mary McCurry in 1829, and to descendants of this couple.
The pairing of the two names as "Angus Notley" was novel and perhaps stirring in 1836 when the grandson of Notley Masters and Angus McCurry was born and given the joint name, although the juxtaposition would have appeared jarring or oxymoronic in Governor Notley's day, something akin to the lady who named her unlucky daughter "Scarlett O'Hara Green" or "Consuelo Vanderbilt O'Doody."
THOROUGHFAIR or THOROUGHFARE PLANTATION
ThoroughFair Plantation, southwest of Dickerson and west of Beallsville, Frederick County, Maryland, lay on the "west" end of Fair Island, later called Mason Island. This plantation was owned by William W. Masters and his wife Mary Veatch. ThoroughFair passed to their son Robert Masters then to his son Notley Masters. Notley Masters sold "ThoroughFair" 2 Nov 1772 to Townley Bruce.
North of White's Ferry and Harrison Island.
15 Sept. 1737: William Masters sold 100 acres "Thoroughfare Plantation" to his son Robert Masters for 2 shillings, probably at the time of his marriage (Prince George's Co: Liber T, fol. 526)
1764: 495 acres "Thorough Fair" resurveyed for Robt Masters
1768: 197 acres "Thorough Fare" resurveyed for Robt Masters
Notley Masters' first wife was Margaret Duckett, his fourth cousin. She was a daughter of Jacob Duckett (1714-1764) and wife Sarah O'Dell; granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1692-1763) and Margaret (Beall) Duckett; great-granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1660-1722) and Sarah Ridgely (Brewer) O'Dell, James Beall (1652-1725) and Sarah (Pearce) Beall; great-great-granddaughter Alexander Beall (brother of Col. Ninian Beall) and Margaret (Ramsey) Beall, John Pearce and Sarah (Sprigg) who was the daughter of Thomas Sprigg and 1st wife Katherine Roper Graves (Two Beall Families: Ninian Beall and Alexander Beall by H. Edgar Hill, p. 43). Thomas Sprigg and second wife Eleanor Nuthall were also great-great-grandparents of Notley Masters' mother (Burgess, Great Lakes Review). Eleanor Nuthall was the daughter
of John Nuthall and Elizabeth (Bacon)Holloway Nuthall.
Masters Genealogy by Jack Masters lists three sons, William, John, and Richard Masters. "Old John Hembree" by Larry Petrisky also lists those three sons.
Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families (1991) by Sharon J. Doliante, page 563 lists another son, Hilleary Masters, who married his cousin Margaret "Peggy" Odell. Page 558 lists another son, Jacob Duckett Masters.
Notley Masters and his first wife, Margaret (Duckett) Masters, removed to what is now Clemmons, Rowan County, North Carolina with his younger brother Hilleary Masters.
The poet Edgar Lee Masters stated incorrectly in his autobiography ACROSS SPOON RIVER (1936) that Notley Masters was the father of his ancestor Hillary Masters, who was actually his brother (Charles Burgess, "The Maryland-Carolina Ancestry of Edgar Lee Masters," The Great Lakes Review, vol. 8, #2 (Fall 1982-Spring 1983), pp.51-80). Also see The Masters Family (1989) by Jack Masters; and Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography (2005) by Herbert K. Russell, pp.14-15.
Notley Masters served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina and fought at the Battle of Musgroves Mills. After Margaret's death, he married a much younger second wife, Mary Hembree, on 30 Jul 1793 in Pendleton District, S.C. The marriage was performed by William Bennett, pastor of Mountain Creek Baptist Church. A family tree online says the marriage took place at Mountain Creek while another says it took place at the home of her father, "Old John Hembree." Mary Hembree Masters lived in Anderson County, S.C., for many years after her husband's death and was a member of Mountain Creek Church until she moved to Georgia to live with her daughter Charlotte. She died in Milton County near Atlanta in 1865.
A DAR membership application of a descendant stated incorrectly that Notley Masters died in Hart County, Georgia, after which several later applications copied this statement. But as stated in the Masters Family History, tradition has long held he was buried at the first Mountain Creek church cemetery not far from the present one (but described then as lost "in the woods"). There was talk of marking his grave in the present cemetery at the time that the grave of Van Davis was marked by the DAR. The original Van Davis grave was also in the old cemetery.
According to Jane Hall Barfield of Anderson, Mountain Creek Church did not retain ownership of the property where the original cemetery was located, "and it is now a trailer park. The owner bulldozed the stones and took them to the landfill."
LaViece Smallwood, descendant of Notley Masters' son Zachariah, researcher, newspaper columnist and author of nine books, wrote: "I believe the legend that Notley is buried in an umarked grave at the Mountain Creek Baptist Church, south of Anderson, South Carolina. See page 79."
Descendants are eligible for membership:
Order of the First Families of Maryland (Masters & Veitch)
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
DAR Ancestor: MASTERS, NOTLY
Ancestor #: A075177
Service: SOUTH CAROLINA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1754 SOUTH CAROLINA (wrong)
Death: 2-12-1819 HART CO GEORGIA (wrong)
Pension Number: *W5365
Service Source: *W5365 ; SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOKS R-T, P 231, LIBER T, #4826
Service Description: 1) COL ROBERT ANDERSON, MILITIA
THE NAME NOTLEY MASTERS
Thomas Notley (1610-1682) was the royal governor of Maryland, 1676-69. He lived in St. Mary's County and moved in some of the same circles with the Hillearys, Willsons, Claggetts, Bealls, Veitches and other relatives of the Masters family. Whether he was related to some degree is unknown, but he or one of his several namesakes likely was the godfather of Robert Masters or one of the other Masters.
One Thomas Notley is listed among the debts to the estate of Thomas Clagett (1703), Notley Masters' great-great-grandfather.
Notley Masters (1745-1819) had a grandson (son of his son Levi) named Angus Notley Masters (1836-1862), who was named for his two grandfathers, Notley Masters of Maryland and Angus McCurry (Jr.) of Georgia. In recent years, some descendants have begun showing the first Notley Masters (1745-1819) in their family trees online as being named Angus also. However, THERE IS NO RECORD SHOWING THAT THE FIRST NOTLEY MASTERS WAS EVER NAMED ANGUS -- No public record nor any pre-1900 private or family record. Nor has any member of the family of Gov. Thomas Notley of Maryland been found with the name Angus. The name Angus appears to be confined entirely to the McCurry family of Elbert County, Georgia, where Notley's son Levi Masters married his wife Mary McCurry in 1829, and to descendants of this couple.
The pairing of the two names as "Angus Notley" was novel and perhaps stirring in 1836 when the grandson of Notley Masters and Angus McCurry was born and given the joint name, although the juxtaposition would have appeared jarring or oxymoronic in Governor Notley's day, something akin to the lady who named her unlucky daughter "Scarlett O'Hara Green" or "Consuelo Vanderbilt O'Doody."
THOROUGHFAIR or THOROUGHFARE PLANTATION
ThoroughFair Plantation, southwest of Dickerson and west of Beallsville, Frederick County, Maryland, lay on the "west" end of Fair Island, later called Mason Island. This plantation was owned by William W. Masters and his wife Mary Veatch. ThoroughFair passed to their son Robert Masters then to his son Notley Masters. Notley Masters sold "ThoroughFair" 2 Nov 1772 to Townley Bruce.
North of White's Ferry and Harrison Island.
15 Sept. 1737: William Masters sold 100 acres "Thoroughfare Plantation" to his son Robert Masters for 2 shillings, probably at the time of his marriage (Prince George's Co: Liber T, fol. 526)
1764: 495 acres "Thorough Fair" resurveyed for Robt Masters
1768: 197 acres "Thorough Fare" resurveyed for Robt Masters
Notley Masters' first wife was Margaret Duckett, his fourth cousin. She was a daughter of Jacob Duckett (1714-1764) and wife Sarah O'Dell; granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1692-1763) and Margaret (Beall) Duckett; great-granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1660-1722) and Sarah Ridgely (Brewer) O'Dell, James Beall (1652-1725) and Sarah (Pearce) Beall; great-great-granddaughter Alexander Beall (brother of Col. Ninian Beall) and Margaret (Ramsey) Beall, John Pearce and Sarah (Sprigg) who was the daughter of Thomas Sprigg and 1st wife Katherine Roper Graves (Two Beall Families: Ninian Beall and Alexander Beall by H. Edgar Hill, p. 43). Thomas Sprigg and second wife Eleanor Nuthall were also great-great-grandparents of Notley Masters' mother (Burgess, Great Lakes Review). Eleanor Nuthall was the daughter
of John Nuthall and Elizabeth (Bacon)Holloway Nuthall.
Masters Genealogy by Jack Masters lists three sons, William, John, and Richard Masters. "Old John Hembree" by Larry Petrisky also lists those three sons.
Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families (1991) by Sharon J. Doliante, page 563 lists another son, Hilleary Masters, who married his cousin Margaret "Peggy" Odell. Page 558 lists another son, Jacob Duckett Masters.
Notley Masters and his first wife, Margaret (Duckett) Masters, removed to what is now Clemmons, Rowan County, North Carolina with his younger brother Hilleary Masters.
The poet Edgar Lee Masters stated incorrectly in his autobiography ACROSS SPOON RIVER (1936) that Notley Masters was the father of his ancestor Hillary Masters, who was actually his brother (Charles Burgess, "The Maryland-Carolina Ancestry of Edgar Lee Masters," The Great Lakes Review, vol. 8, #2 (Fall 1982-Spring 1983), pp.51-80). Also see The Masters Family (1989) by Jack Masters; and Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography (2005) by Herbert K. Russell, pp.14-15.
Notley Masters served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina and fought at the Battle of Musgroves Mills. After Margaret's death, he married a much younger second wife, Mary Hembree, on 30 Jul 1793 in Pendleton District, S.C. The marriage was performed by William Bennett, pastor of Mountain Creek Baptist Church. A family tree online says the marriage took place at Mountain Creek while another says it took place at the home of her father, "Old John Hembree." Mary Hembree Masters lived in Anderson County, S.C., for many years after her husband's death and was a member of Mountain Creek Church until she moved to Georgia to live with her daughter Charlotte. She died in Milton County near Atlanta in 1865.
A DAR membership application of a descendant stated incorrectly that Notley Masters died in Hart County, Georgia, after which several later applications copied this statement. But as stated in the Masters Family History, tradition has long held he was buried at the first Mountain Creek church cemetery not far from the present one (but described then as lost "in the woods"). There was talk of marking his grave in the present cemetery at the time that the grave of Van Davis was marked by the DAR. The original Van Davis grave was also in the old cemetery.
According to Jane Hall Barfield of Anderson, Mountain Creek Church did not retain ownership of the property where the original cemetery was located, "and it is now a trailer park. The owner bulldozed the stones and took them to the landfill."
LaViece Smallwood, descendant of Notley Masters' son Zachariah, researcher, newspaper columnist and author of nine books, wrote: "I believe the legend that Notley is buried in an umarked grave at the Mountain Creek Baptist Church, south of Anderson, South Carolina. See page 79."
Descendants are eligible for membership:
Order of the First Families of Maryland (Masters & Veitch)
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
DAR Ancestor: MASTERS, NOTLY
Ancestor #: A075177
Service: SOUTH CAROLINA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1754 SOUTH CAROLINA (wrong)
Death: 2-12-1819 HART CO GEORGIA (wrong)
Pension Number: *W5365
Service Source: *W5365 ; SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOKS R-T, P 231, LIBER T, #4826
Service Description: 1) COL ROBERT ANDERSON, MILITIA
Born at Thorough Fare Plantation near Dickerson, Montgomery County, Maryland, the son of Robert and Mary (Willson) Masters; grandson of William W. Masters and Mary (Veatch) Masters, Thomas Wilson and Priscilla (Kent) Wilson; great-grandson of Robert Masters (and Constance Randolph Masters?), Nathan Veatch and Ann (Claggett) Veatch, Joseph Wilson and Frances (Hilleary) Wilson; Absalom Kent and Mary (Wadsworth) Kent; great-great-grandson of James Veitch, High Sheriff of the entire Province of Maryland, Lt. Col. Thomas Hilleary and Eleanor (Sprigg) Hilleary, Henry Kent and Martha (Brasseur/Brashears) Kent, William Wadsworth and Elizabeth (Claggett) Wadsworth.
THE NAME NOTLEY MASTERS
Thomas Notley (1610-1682) was the royal governor of Maryland, 1676-69. He lived in St. Mary's County and moved in some of the same circles with the Hillearys, Willsons, Claggetts, Bealls, Veitches and other relatives of the Masters family. Whether he was related to some degree is unknown, but he or one of his several namesakes likely was the godfather of Robert Masters or one of the other Masters.
One Thomas Notley is listed among the debts to the estate of Thomas Clagett (1703), Notley Masters' great-great-grandfather.
Notley Masters (1745-1819) had a grandson (son of his son Levi) named Angus Notley Masters (1836-1862), who was named for his two grandfathers, Notley Masters of Maryland and Angus McCurry (Jr.) of Georgia. In recent years, some descendants have begun showing the first Notley Masters (1745-1819) in their family trees online as being named Angus also. However, THERE IS NO RECORD SHOWING THAT THE FIRST NOTLEY MASTERS WAS EVER NAMED ANGUS -- No public record nor any pre-1900 private or family record. Nor has any member of the family of Gov. Thomas Notley of Maryland been found with the name Angus. The name Angus appears to be confined entirely to the McCurry family of Elbert County, Georgia, where Notley's son Levi Masters married his wife Mary McCurry in 1829, and to descendants of this couple.
The pairing of the two names as "Angus Notley" was novel and perhaps stirring in 1836 when the grandson of Notley Masters and Angus McCurry was born and given the joint name, although the juxtaposition would have appeared jarring or oxymoronic in Governor Notley's day, something akin to the lady who named her unlucky daughter "Scarlett O'Hara Green" or "Consuelo Vanderbilt O'Doody."
THOROUGHFAIR or THOROUGHFARE PLANTATION
ThoroughFair Plantation, southwest of Dickerson and west of Beallsville, Frederick County, Maryland, lay on the "west" end of Fair Island, later called Mason Island. This plantation was owned by William W. Masters and his wife Mary Veatch. ThoroughFair passed to their son Robert Masters then to his son Notley Masters. Notley Masters sold "ThoroughFair" 2 Nov 1772 to Townley Bruce.
North of White's Ferry and Harrison Island.
15 Sept. 1737: William Masters sold 100 acres "Thoroughfare Plantation" to his son Robert Masters for 2 shillings, probably at the time of his marriage (Prince George's Co: Liber T, fol. 526)
1764: 495 acres "Thorough Fair" resurveyed for Robt Masters
1768: 197 acres "Thorough Fare" resurveyed for Robt Masters
Notley Masters' first wife was Margaret Duckett, his fourth cousin. She was a daughter of Jacob Duckett (1714-1764) and wife Sarah O'Dell; granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1692-1763) and Margaret (Beall) Duckett; great-granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1660-1722) and Sarah Ridgely (Brewer) O'Dell, James Beall (1652-1725) and Sarah (Pearce) Beall; great-great-granddaughter Alexander Beall (brother of Col. Ninian Beall) and Margaret (Ramsey) Beall, John Pearce and Sarah (Sprigg) who was the daughter of Thomas Sprigg and 1st wife Katherine Roper Graves (Two Beall Families: Ninian Beall and Alexander Beall by H. Edgar Hill, p. 43). Thomas Sprigg and second wife Eleanor Nuthall were also great-great-grandparents of Notley Masters' mother (Burgess, Great Lakes Review). Eleanor Nuthall was the daughter
of John Nuthall and Elizabeth (Bacon)Holloway Nuthall.
Masters Genealogy by Jack Masters lists three sons, William, John, and Richard Masters. "Old John Hembree" by Larry Petrisky also lists those three sons.
Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families (1991) by Sharon J. Doliante, page 563 lists another son, Hilleary Masters, who married his cousin Margaret "Peggy" Odell. Page 558 lists another son, Jacob Duckett Masters.
Notley Masters and his first wife, Margaret (Duckett) Masters, removed to what is now Clemmons, Rowan County, North Carolina with his younger brother Hilleary Masters.
The poet Edgar Lee Masters stated incorrectly in his autobiography ACROSS SPOON RIVER (1936) that Notley Masters was the father of his ancestor Hillary Masters, who was actually his brother (Charles Burgess, "The Maryland-Carolina Ancestry of Edgar Lee Masters," The Great Lakes Review, vol. 8, #2 (Fall 1982-Spring 1983), pp.51-80). Also see The Masters Family (1989) by Jack Masters; and Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography (2005) by Herbert K. Russell, pp.14-15.
Notley Masters served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina and fought at the Battle of Musgroves Mills. After Margaret's death, he married a much younger second wife, Mary Hembree, on 30 Jul 1793 in Pendleton District, S.C. The marriage was performed by William Bennett, pastor of Mountain Creek Baptist Church. A family tree online says the marriage took place at Mountain Creek while another says it took place at the home of her father, "Old John Hembree." Mary Hembree Masters lived in Anderson County, S.C., for many years after her husband's death and was a member of Mountain Creek Church until she moved to Georgia to live with her daughter Charlotte. She died in Milton County near Atlanta in 1865.
A DAR membership application of a descendant stated incorrectly that Notley Masters died in Hart County, Georgia, after which several later applications copied this statement. But as stated in the Masters Family History, tradition has long held he was buried at the first Mountain Creek church cemetery not far from the present one (but described then as lost "in the woods"). There was talk of marking his grave in the present cemetery at the time that the grave of Van Davis was marked by the DAR. The original Van Davis grave was also in the old cemetery.
According to Jane Hall Barfield of Anderson, Mountain Creek Church did not retain ownership of the property where the original cemetery was located, "and it is now a trailer park. The owner bulldozed the stones and took them to the landfill."
LaViece Smallwood, descendant of Notley Masters' son Zachariah, researcher, newspaper columnist and author of nine books, wrote: "I believe the legend that Notley is buried in an umarked grave at the Mountain Creek Baptist Church, south of Anderson, South Carolina. See page 79."
Descendants are eligible for membership:
Order of the First Families of Maryland (Masters & Veitch)
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
DAR Ancestor: MASTERS, NOTLY
Ancestor #: A075177
Service: SOUTH CAROLINA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1754 SOUTH CAROLINA (wrong)
Death: 2-12-1819 HART CO GEORGIA (wrong)
Pension Number: *W5365
Service Source: *W5365 ; SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOKS R-T, P 231, LIBER T, #4826
Service Description: 1) COL ROBERT ANDERSON, MILITIA
THE NAME NOTLEY MASTERS
Thomas Notley (1610-1682) was the royal governor of Maryland, 1676-69. He lived in St. Mary's County and moved in some of the same circles with the Hillearys, Willsons, Claggetts, Bealls, Veitches and other relatives of the Masters family. Whether he was related to some degree is unknown, but he or one of his several namesakes likely was the godfather of Robert Masters or one of the other Masters.
One Thomas Notley is listed among the debts to the estate of Thomas Clagett (1703), Notley Masters' great-great-grandfather.
Notley Masters (1745-1819) had a grandson (son of his son Levi) named Angus Notley Masters (1836-1862), who was named for his two grandfathers, Notley Masters of Maryland and Angus McCurry (Jr.) of Georgia. In recent years, some descendants have begun showing the first Notley Masters (1745-1819) in their family trees online as being named Angus also. However, THERE IS NO RECORD SHOWING THAT THE FIRST NOTLEY MASTERS WAS EVER NAMED ANGUS -- No public record nor any pre-1900 private or family record. Nor has any member of the family of Gov. Thomas Notley of Maryland been found with the name Angus. The name Angus appears to be confined entirely to the McCurry family of Elbert County, Georgia, where Notley's son Levi Masters married his wife Mary McCurry in 1829, and to descendants of this couple.
The pairing of the two names as "Angus Notley" was novel and perhaps stirring in 1836 when the grandson of Notley Masters and Angus McCurry was born and given the joint name, although the juxtaposition would have appeared jarring or oxymoronic in Governor Notley's day, something akin to the lady who named her unlucky daughter "Scarlett O'Hara Green" or "Consuelo Vanderbilt O'Doody."
THOROUGHFAIR or THOROUGHFARE PLANTATION
ThoroughFair Plantation, southwest of Dickerson and west of Beallsville, Frederick County, Maryland, lay on the "west" end of Fair Island, later called Mason Island. This plantation was owned by William W. Masters and his wife Mary Veatch. ThoroughFair passed to their son Robert Masters then to his son Notley Masters. Notley Masters sold "ThoroughFair" 2 Nov 1772 to Townley Bruce.
North of White's Ferry and Harrison Island.
15 Sept. 1737: William Masters sold 100 acres "Thoroughfare Plantation" to his son Robert Masters for 2 shillings, probably at the time of his marriage (Prince George's Co: Liber T, fol. 526)
1764: 495 acres "Thorough Fair" resurveyed for Robt Masters
1768: 197 acres "Thorough Fare" resurveyed for Robt Masters
Notley Masters' first wife was Margaret Duckett, his fourth cousin. She was a daughter of Jacob Duckett (1714-1764) and wife Sarah O'Dell; granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1692-1763) and Margaret (Beall) Duckett; great-granddaughter of Thomas O'Dell (1660-1722) and Sarah Ridgely (Brewer) O'Dell, James Beall (1652-1725) and Sarah (Pearce) Beall; great-great-granddaughter Alexander Beall (brother of Col. Ninian Beall) and Margaret (Ramsey) Beall, John Pearce and Sarah (Sprigg) who was the daughter of Thomas Sprigg and 1st wife Katherine Roper Graves (Two Beall Families: Ninian Beall and Alexander Beall by H. Edgar Hill, p. 43). Thomas Sprigg and second wife Eleanor Nuthall were also great-great-grandparents of Notley Masters' mother (Burgess, Great Lakes Review). Eleanor Nuthall was the daughter
of John Nuthall and Elizabeth (Bacon)Holloway Nuthall.
Masters Genealogy by Jack Masters lists three sons, William, John, and Richard Masters. "Old John Hembree" by Larry Petrisky also lists those three sons.
Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families (1991) by Sharon J. Doliante, page 563 lists another son, Hilleary Masters, who married his cousin Margaret "Peggy" Odell. Page 558 lists another son, Jacob Duckett Masters.
Notley Masters and his first wife, Margaret (Duckett) Masters, removed to what is now Clemmons, Rowan County, North Carolina with his younger brother Hilleary Masters.
The poet Edgar Lee Masters stated incorrectly in his autobiography ACROSS SPOON RIVER (1936) that Notley Masters was the father of his ancestor Hillary Masters, who was actually his brother (Charles Burgess, "The Maryland-Carolina Ancestry of Edgar Lee Masters," The Great Lakes Review, vol. 8, #2 (Fall 1982-Spring 1983), pp.51-80). Also see The Masters Family (1989) by Jack Masters; and Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography (2005) by Herbert K. Russell, pp.14-15.
Notley Masters served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina and fought at the Battle of Musgroves Mills. After Margaret's death, he married a much younger second wife, Mary Hembree, on 30 Jul 1793 in Pendleton District, S.C. The marriage was performed by William Bennett, pastor of Mountain Creek Baptist Church. A family tree online says the marriage took place at Mountain Creek while another says it took place at the home of her father, "Old John Hembree." Mary Hembree Masters lived in Anderson County, S.C., for many years after her husband's death and was a member of Mountain Creek Church until she moved to Georgia to live with her daughter Charlotte. She died in Milton County near Atlanta in 1865.
A DAR membership application of a descendant stated incorrectly that Notley Masters died in Hart County, Georgia, after which several later applications copied this statement. But as stated in the Masters Family History, tradition has long held he was buried at the first Mountain Creek church cemetery not far from the present one (but described then as lost "in the woods"). There was talk of marking his grave in the present cemetery at the time that the grave of Van Davis was marked by the DAR. The original Van Davis grave was also in the old cemetery.
According to Jane Hall Barfield of Anderson, Mountain Creek Church did not retain ownership of the property where the original cemetery was located, "and it is now a trailer park. The owner bulldozed the stones and took them to the landfill."
LaViece Smallwood, descendant of Notley Masters' son Zachariah, researcher, newspaper columnist and author of nine books, wrote: "I believe the legend that Notley is buried in an umarked grave at the Mountain Creek Baptist Church, south of Anderson, South Carolina. See page 79."
Descendants are eligible for membership:
Order of the First Families of Maryland (Masters & Veitch)
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
DAR Ancestor: MASTERS, NOTLY
Ancestor #: A075177
Service: SOUTH CAROLINA
Rank: PRIVATE
Birth: 1754 SOUTH CAROLINA (wrong)
Death: 2-12-1819 HART CO GEORGIA (wrong)
Pension Number: *W5365
Service Source: *W5365 ; SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOKS R-T, P 231, LIBER T, #4826
Service Description: 1) COL ROBERT ANDERSON, MILITIA
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