Jeremiah York I is the first child of five or six children born to Richard York II and Ann Seymour. Jeremiah was christened on 9 September 1683 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Most likely this occurred at the St Peter and St Paul Church where the famous John Newton was later the preacher.
It is believed that Jeremiah York I, age 25, first married in about1708 to Sarah SEYMOUR, age 16, perhaps a daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. However, Jeremiah York's mother is identified as Ann SEYMOUR. His Grand mother is identified as Mary Jane SEYMOUR. For many decades in the twentieth century many Jeremiah York researchers have made the claim that Jeremiah York first married a Sarah SEYMOUR. Other researchers alleged Sarah SEYMOUR to be a cousin of Jeremiah. So far no English parish records have been discovered to establish the exact kinship relationship to his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR. It is very certain there was a close kinship between the SEYMOUR families and and the Jeremiah YORK families.
Never the less, the overwhelming evidence of a separate Quaker branch of the Jeremiah York descendants occurs exclusively among the John David York descendants who migrated into exclusive segregated Quaker communities in North Carolina.
Jeremiah York I and his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR had two known children. There may have been more children, yet undiscovered or some may have died as infants in England. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John David York perhaps named after his father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1714 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Sarah Seymour most likely died in 1714 at age 22 in England perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is suggested shortly after the death of Sarah, that Jeremiah York I, as a devastated widower husband, arranged for himself and his young son John to sail to America in about 1715-1717 with the family of his newly married sister, Ann Elizabeth YORK and new husband Solomon ALLRED. In addition, Jeremiah may have received some money from the Seymour family to pay for the voyage to America at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to start a new life.
Without any conflict, some researchers including Dennis York are convinced of a significant timeline scenario. It is proposed Solomon ALLRED I, age 30, is believed to have married in 1710 in England to 'Ann' Elizabeth YORK, age 22, daughter of Richard YORK II and Ann SEYMOUR. Their first child Solomon ALLRED II is proposed to be born in England in 1712. Likewise their second child Elizabeth ALLRED is proposed to be born in England in 1713. This is my logical explanation of the five year birth gap between the second and third child born in 1718 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This is consistent without conflict for their immigration to America in about 1715-1717.
Ann Elizabeth YORK is the youngest sister of Jeremiah YORK and their families were very close friends first in England. Most likely Jeremiah YORK I having just lost his first wife in England on 1714 had a new opportunity to voyage to America with his young son John YORK along with his younger married sister Ann Elizabeth YORK ALLRED and her two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED plus his new brother-in-law Solomon ALLRED I. The two month ocean voyage in about 1715 -1717 to America would have provided a great adventure for these two families. The children were first cousins which would provide for great travel companions. Solomon ALLRED I and Ann Elizabeth YORK, his new wife with their two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED, Jeremiah YORK I with his young son John David YORK created a bond between these two families that has endured for the centuries through their descendants.
Jeremiah and his young son John are believed to have first settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the Chester County, West Nottingham tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.
We know from the tax lists of West Nottingham, Jeremiah lived in Chester County until before 1732 perhaps until 1731. The first seven children of Jeremiah and Sarah were born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sometime after listing his taxes in 1729; Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson left their home in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania due to the dispute by two different Governors over taxes. The Governor in Pennsylvania and the Governor in Maryland, tried to collect property taxes both claiming the property they lived on. Years later this was settled by the famous survey by Mason & Dixon to establish the boundary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The West Nottingham Tax district became part of Cecil County, Maryland after the Mason and Dixon line settlement. Violence broke out west of the Nottingham Tax District in about 1732 called the Cresap's War over the borderline for Property Taxes. King Charles II of England soon established a temporary east-west border between Pennsylvania and Maryland on a line 15 1/4 miles south of Philadelphia. By 1737 a cease fire had been agreed to by the conflicting parties.
Most likely the Allred's and York's packed all their children, household goods and live stock to depart Chester County traveling together in farm wagons pulled by oxen or mules. Jeremiah and Sarah York migrated west in about 1731 with seven young children traveling west on the old Monocracy Wagon Road. The Solomon Allred and Ann York family with their four children traveled the same route together for overnight stops, cooking meals in a group for safety and security. They arrived in the Big Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland where the Monocracy Wagon Road was not yet fully developed westward for wagon travel. This area is south or west of the of the present day village of Keymar, Maryland.
West of this area is where the Big Pipe Creek and Little Pipe Creek converge to flow into the Monocracy River in a very low swampy muddy flood plane with very muddy waters. The areas near the Monocracy River are not suitable terrain for overnight or short term camping with no clean waters. The Allred's and York's most likely considered the best plan would be to pull aside from the Monocracy Wagon Road to find suitable higher ground and clean water. Sarah York was pregnant with her eighth child in need of a safe location to deliver and rest after the long trip from Chester County . They needed a convenient area with clean water nearby with green meadows for their live stock to forage and a place where camping for the coming fall and winter would be protected. Fording the Big Pipe Creek below a series of hills for protection from the northern winds was likely their selection. This area is just off the Monocracy Wagon Road from Philadelphia south or west of present day Keymar, the home of Francis Scott Key.
My extensive in the fall tour of 2003 plus an interview with a local historian in this geographical area in 2003 was most convincing as the temporary camping area where two York sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730/1731 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community camping area was most probably somewhere on a higher elevation south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland off the Monocracy Road near little Pipe Creek with clear clean water. The Pipe Creeks near the Monocracy River are very muddy due to the low muddy flood plane near the river that are not suitable as a safe camping area. These families needed a safe camping location away from the trail to spend the winter and spring while the men pushed further west clearing a wider trail suitable for wagon or foot travel in the wilderness into Virginia. They camped in a higher elevation area that is now near highway 194 perhaps in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N – Longitude 77.242133 W). This area is a few miles east to the Monocracy Road on the banks of the clean waters of Little Pipe Creek 50 miles west of the Union Bridge Community. Union Bridge Community on Little Pipe Creek which was not established until 1795 more than 63 years later than erroneously reported by other researchers. Reports of Henry York being born in the Union Bridge Community is in error based on a more modern development of the facts that Union Bridge did not exist until 1795.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge Lester, there is a record that states that Jeremiah's son Henry York was born on Pipe Creek on 6 Aug 1732. This Pipe Creek community was then in Monocracy Hundreds of Prince Georges County, Maryland for which a 1733 tax list exists. However, Jeremiah York is not listed on this tax list suggesting he had moved west into colonial Frederick County, Virginia before 1733 into an area that is today in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
By 1733/1735 the Jeremiah York I family with nine young children migrated further west to a new homestead on the beautiful high plateau of the "Terrapin Neck" peninsular. The Jeremiah York family was certainly living in Frederick County, Virginia Colony on part of a 2,300 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck", high plateau south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736. This was his home as shown on surveys by both Benjamin Winslow and William Mayo maps.
The "Terrapin Neck" tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 Nov 1735. Jost Hite was one of the affluent Palatine Germans who settled in Virginia as a land promoter, a colonial real estate agent.
This Hite family was most likely known by Jeremiah York I because both families had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania before arriving in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. It is not unlikely that Jeremiah York was one of the first settlers but would not make a deed with Hite. More probably, Jeremiah York moved into 323 acres of land on "Terrapin Neck" in early 1734 from the Pipe Creek settlement camp and positively we know by 1736. The Jeremiah York I family was part of this early land development of the Northern Neck of colonial Virginia.
Two more children were added to the Jeremiah York I family at Terrapin Neck; Joseph York in 1734 and Sarah 'Elizabeth' York in 1735. There were two older sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Elijah and Jesse York according to the research of Dr. Ron York descendant of Jeremiah York II.
Jeremiah York I was age 70, when he sold his 323 ares of land to William Chapline on 4 Jul 1753. The chain bearers on the survey were Thomas York and his nephew David York, who were two of Jeremiah's sons by two different wives. Thereafter the sale perhaps Jeremiah lived temporarily with one of his sons likely as a widower on the "Great Cacepehon River" to the west of "Terrapin Neck". Or he may have had an agreement with Chapline to stay in his home on Terrapin Neck for a while since Chapline had his own home on adjoining land or he could have stayed on his son Thomas York's land that adjoined Terrapin Neck. It is possible that Jeremiah York's wife Sara Wilson perhaps died at "Terrapin Neck" about 1752 when the property was sold . This may have been the abrupt event that led to the legal sale of his 323 acre "Terrapin Neck" property on the beautiful high bluffs of the Potomac River in 1753.
Jeremiah York I and his family of five sons and two daughters along with their minister Rev Elder Shubal Stearns migrated in wagon trains down the "Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia" through the Shenandoah Valley. Very possibly their Allred neighbors and friends across the Potomac River traveled in the same wagon train or a much earlier horse back trip into the Carolina s. In any case the they broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into central Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 to locate in the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755. The York family is believed to have migrated into Colonial Orange (Now Randolph)County, North Carolina in the late summer of 1755. The eldest son, Semore York, secured 640 acres on Sandy Creek with a Granville Land grant in 1756.
Semore York provided 120 acres on the north side of his land grant for his father Jeremiah York I to live on next to the Harmon HUSBAND Plantation on Sandy Creek. According to church history Semore York also donated two acres of land from his land grant for his pastor Rev Elder Shubal Stearns to created the historic Sandy Creek Baptist Church. The first church log cabin erected on the high hill in the south eastern section of the older section of the cemetery is described in the historic monument on the site.
The name "David York" also appears on the land records of old Frederick County, Virginia when he and Thomas York were chain carriers in a land survey on a tract on Opequon Creek made in 1763. It is believed that these two were nephew David York and uncle Thomas York had returned to Frederick County, Virginia from their new log cabins in the colonial North Carolina to settle the land they had left behind. This scenario is supported by the evidence the York family had already migrated into central North Carolina by 1755. John David York I (half brother) and his son John David York II, Semore York and Henry York are listed on the Colonial Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax List. These four plus the remaining sons were on the first 1779 Tax List of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elijah & Jesse York, most likely continued living with or near Jeremiah York II at the Forks of Opequon in Virginia since they did not go south to North Carolina with the senior Jeremiah York I and other brothers.
We know Jeremiah York I lived in Colonial Orange County, North Carolina most likely until around 1765 or longer on 120 acres of land belonging to his son Semore York I. In the 1782 will of Semore York is a declaration that: "It is my will that my executors do make a deed for one hundred and twenty acres of land to my son in law John Welborn (husband of my daughter Sarah York) that my father formerly lived on and likewise a claim of land containing about eighty acres adjoining to the aforesaid land". This is found in the Randolph County, North Carolina Will Book 1, pages 8, 9, & 10.
The above time line was developed by the joint combined research of Dr. Ron York and Dennis York in ©2013 descendants of Jeremiah York I.
©2019 Edit by Dennis York
David York is a grand son of the first Marriage of Jeremiah York in England. David was a nephew to his half uncle Thomas York, not a brother.
The son John York is from the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour. John York would need to be age 21 or more to be listing taxes in 1755, So he is believed to be the John York listed in the 1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List and the 1779 Randolph County, North Carolina Tax List.
The two surviving children of the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour are:
1. John York, b. 1708 England; d. 1781 NC
__1.1. John David "Davie" York, b. 1725 PA; d. 1792 NC (Exclusive Quaker)
2. Richard York II, b. 1715 England; d. 1767 England
__2.1. John William York, b. 1740 England; d. 1829 SC
The ten children of the second marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson are:
1. Hannah Jane York, b. 1722 PA; d. 1787 NC
2. Elijah York, b. 1723 PA; d. 1779 PA, killed by Indians while hunting and trapping.
3. Jesse York, b. 1724 PA; d. 1810 KY
4. Elizabeth "Betty" Ann York, b. 1726 PA; d. 1790 NC
5. Semore York I, b. 1727 PA; d. 1783 NC
6. Thomas York I, b. 1729 PA; d. 1790 NC
7. Jeremiah York II, b. 1730 MD; d. 1797 KY
8. Henry York, b. 1732 MD; d. 1817 NC
9. Joseph York, b. 1734 VA; d. 1809 MS/AL
10. Sarah 'Elizabeth' York, b. 1735 VA; d. 1777 NC
It is believed that Jeremiah York I, age 25, first married in about1708 to Sarah SEYMOUR, age 16, perhaps a daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. However, Jeremiah York's mother is identified as Ann SEYMOUR. His Grand mother is identified as Mary Jane SEYMOUR. For many decades in the twentieth century many Jeremiah York researchers have made the claim that Jeremiah York first married a Sarah SEYMOUR. Other researchers alleged Sarah SEYMOUR to be a cousin of Jeremiah. So far no English parish records have been discovered to establish the exact kinship relationship to his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR. It is very certain there was a close kinship between the SEYMOUR families and and the Jeremiah YORK families.
Never the less, the overwhelming evidence of a separate Quaker branch of the Jeremiah York descendants occurs exclusively among the John David York descendants who migrated into exclusive segregated Quaker communities in North Carolina.
Jeremiah York I and his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR had two known children. There may have been more children, yet undiscovered or some may have died as infants in England. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John David York perhaps named after his father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1714 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Sarah Seymour most likely died in 1714 at age 22 in England perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is suggested shortly after the death of Sarah, that Jeremiah York I, as a devastated widower husband, arranged for himself and his young son John to sail to America in about 1715-1717 with the family of his newly married sister, Ann Elizabeth YORK and new husband Solomon ALLRED. In addition, Jeremiah may have received some money from the Seymour family to pay for the voyage to America at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to start a new life.
Without any conflict, some researchers including Dennis York are convinced of a significant timeline scenario. It is proposed Solomon ALLRED I, age 30, is believed to have married in 1710 in England to 'Ann' Elizabeth YORK, age 22, daughter of Richard YORK II and Ann SEYMOUR. Their first child Solomon ALLRED II is proposed to be born in England in 1712. Likewise their second child Elizabeth ALLRED is proposed to be born in England in 1713. This is my logical explanation of the five year birth gap between the second and third child born in 1718 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This is consistent without conflict for their immigration to America in about 1715-1717.
Ann Elizabeth YORK is the youngest sister of Jeremiah YORK and their families were very close friends first in England. Most likely Jeremiah YORK I having just lost his first wife in England on 1714 had a new opportunity to voyage to America with his young son John YORK along with his younger married sister Ann Elizabeth YORK ALLRED and her two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED plus his new brother-in-law Solomon ALLRED I. The two month ocean voyage in about 1715 -1717 to America would have provided a great adventure for these two families. The children were first cousins which would provide for great travel companions. Solomon ALLRED I and Ann Elizabeth YORK, his new wife with their two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED, Jeremiah YORK I with his young son John David YORK created a bond between these two families that has endured for the centuries through their descendants.
Jeremiah and his young son John are believed to have first settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the Chester County, West Nottingham tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.
We know from the tax lists of West Nottingham, Jeremiah lived in Chester County until before 1732 perhaps until 1731. The first seven children of Jeremiah and Sarah were born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sometime after listing his taxes in 1729; Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson left their home in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania due to the dispute by two different Governors over taxes. The Governor in Pennsylvania and the Governor in Maryland, tried to collect property taxes both claiming the property they lived on. Years later this was settled by the famous survey by Mason & Dixon to establish the boundary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The West Nottingham Tax district became part of Cecil County, Maryland after the Mason and Dixon line settlement. Violence broke out west of the Nottingham Tax District in about 1732 called the Cresap's War over the borderline for Property Taxes. King Charles II of England soon established a temporary east-west border between Pennsylvania and Maryland on a line 15 1/4 miles south of Philadelphia. By 1737 a cease fire had been agreed to by the conflicting parties.
Most likely the Allred's and York's packed all their children, household goods and live stock to depart Chester County traveling together in farm wagons pulled by oxen or mules. Jeremiah and Sarah York migrated west in about 1731 with seven young children traveling west on the old Monocracy Wagon Road. The Solomon Allred and Ann York family with their four children traveled the same route together for overnight stops, cooking meals in a group for safety and security. They arrived in the Big Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland where the Monocracy Wagon Road was not yet fully developed westward for wagon travel. This area is south or west of the of the present day village of Keymar, Maryland.
West of this area is where the Big Pipe Creek and Little Pipe Creek converge to flow into the Monocracy River in a very low swampy muddy flood plane with very muddy waters. The areas near the Monocracy River are not suitable terrain for overnight or short term camping with no clean waters. The Allred's and York's most likely considered the best plan would be to pull aside from the Monocracy Wagon Road to find suitable higher ground and clean water. Sarah York was pregnant with her eighth child in need of a safe location to deliver and rest after the long trip from Chester County . They needed a convenient area with clean water nearby with green meadows for their live stock to forage and a place where camping for the coming fall and winter would be protected. Fording the Big Pipe Creek below a series of hills for protection from the northern winds was likely their selection. This area is just off the Monocracy Wagon Road from Philadelphia south or west of present day Keymar, the home of Francis Scott Key.
My extensive in the fall tour of 2003 plus an interview with a local historian in this geographical area in 2003 was most convincing as the temporary camping area where two York sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730/1731 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community camping area was most probably somewhere on a higher elevation south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland off the Monocracy Road near little Pipe Creek with clear clean water. The Pipe Creeks near the Monocracy River are very muddy due to the low muddy flood plane near the river that are not suitable as a safe camping area. These families needed a safe camping location away from the trail to spend the winter and spring while the men pushed further west clearing a wider trail suitable for wagon or foot travel in the wilderness into Virginia. They camped in a higher elevation area that is now near highway 194 perhaps in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N – Longitude 77.242133 W). This area is a few miles east to the Monocracy Road on the banks of the clean waters of Little Pipe Creek 50 miles west of the Union Bridge Community. Union Bridge Community on Little Pipe Creek which was not established until 1795 more than 63 years later than erroneously reported by other researchers. Reports of Henry York being born in the Union Bridge Community is in error based on a more modern development of the facts that Union Bridge did not exist until 1795.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge Lester, there is a record that states that Jeremiah's son Henry York was born on Pipe Creek on 6 Aug 1732. This Pipe Creek community was then in Monocracy Hundreds of Prince Georges County, Maryland for which a 1733 tax list exists. However, Jeremiah York is not listed on this tax list suggesting he had moved west into colonial Frederick County, Virginia before 1733 into an area that is today in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
By 1733/1735 the Jeremiah York I family with nine young children migrated further west to a new homestead on the beautiful high plateau of the "Terrapin Neck" peninsular. The Jeremiah York family was certainly living in Frederick County, Virginia Colony on part of a 2,300 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck", high plateau south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736. This was his home as shown on surveys by both Benjamin Winslow and William Mayo maps.
The "Terrapin Neck" tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 Nov 1735. Jost Hite was one of the affluent Palatine Germans who settled in Virginia as a land promoter, a colonial real estate agent.
This Hite family was most likely known by Jeremiah York I because both families had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania before arriving in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. It is not unlikely that Jeremiah York was one of the first settlers but would not make a deed with Hite. More probably, Jeremiah York moved into 323 acres of land on "Terrapin Neck" in early 1734 from the Pipe Creek settlement camp and positively we know by 1736. The Jeremiah York I family was part of this early land development of the Northern Neck of colonial Virginia.
Two more children were added to the Jeremiah York I family at Terrapin Neck; Joseph York in 1734 and Sarah 'Elizabeth' York in 1735. There were two older sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Elijah and Jesse York according to the research of Dr. Ron York descendant of Jeremiah York II.
Jeremiah York I was age 70, when he sold his 323 ares of land to William Chapline on 4 Jul 1753. The chain bearers on the survey were Thomas York and his nephew David York, who were two of Jeremiah's sons by two different wives. Thereafter the sale perhaps Jeremiah lived temporarily with one of his sons likely as a widower on the "Great Cacepehon River" to the west of "Terrapin Neck". Or he may have had an agreement with Chapline to stay in his home on Terrapin Neck for a while since Chapline had his own home on adjoining land or he could have stayed on his son Thomas York's land that adjoined Terrapin Neck. It is possible that Jeremiah York's wife Sara Wilson perhaps died at "Terrapin Neck" about 1752 when the property was sold . This may have been the abrupt event that led to the legal sale of his 323 acre "Terrapin Neck" property on the beautiful high bluffs of the Potomac River in 1753.
Jeremiah York I and his family of five sons and two daughters along with their minister Rev Elder Shubal Stearns migrated in wagon trains down the "Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia" through the Shenandoah Valley. Very possibly their Allred neighbors and friends across the Potomac River traveled in the same wagon train or a much earlier horse back trip into the Carolina s. In any case the they broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into central Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 to locate in the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755. The York family is believed to have migrated into Colonial Orange (Now Randolph)County, North Carolina in the late summer of 1755. The eldest son, Semore York, secured 640 acres on Sandy Creek with a Granville Land grant in 1756.
Semore York provided 120 acres on the north side of his land grant for his father Jeremiah York I to live on next to the Harmon HUSBAND Plantation on Sandy Creek. According to church history Semore York also donated two acres of land from his land grant for his pastor Rev Elder Shubal Stearns to created the historic Sandy Creek Baptist Church. The first church log cabin erected on the high hill in the south eastern section of the older section of the cemetery is described in the historic monument on the site.
The name "David York" also appears on the land records of old Frederick County, Virginia when he and Thomas York were chain carriers in a land survey on a tract on Opequon Creek made in 1763. It is believed that these two were nephew David York and uncle Thomas York had returned to Frederick County, Virginia from their new log cabins in the colonial North Carolina to settle the land they had left behind. This scenario is supported by the evidence the York family had already migrated into central North Carolina by 1755. John David York I (half brother) and his son John David York II, Semore York and Henry York are listed on the Colonial Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax List. These four plus the remaining sons were on the first 1779 Tax List of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elijah & Jesse York, most likely continued living with or near Jeremiah York II at the Forks of Opequon in Virginia since they did not go south to North Carolina with the senior Jeremiah York I and other brothers.
We know Jeremiah York I lived in Colonial Orange County, North Carolina most likely until around 1765 or longer on 120 acres of land belonging to his son Semore York I. In the 1782 will of Semore York is a declaration that: "It is my will that my executors do make a deed for one hundred and twenty acres of land to my son in law John Welborn (husband of my daughter Sarah York) that my father formerly lived on and likewise a claim of land containing about eighty acres adjoining to the aforesaid land". This is found in the Randolph County, North Carolina Will Book 1, pages 8, 9, & 10.
The above time line was developed by the joint combined research of Dr. Ron York and Dennis York in ©2013 descendants of Jeremiah York I.
©2019 Edit by Dennis York
David York is a grand son of the first Marriage of Jeremiah York in England. David was a nephew to his half uncle Thomas York, not a brother.
The son John York is from the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour. John York would need to be age 21 or more to be listing taxes in 1755, So he is believed to be the John York listed in the 1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List and the 1779 Randolph County, North Carolina Tax List.
The two surviving children of the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour are:
1. John York, b. 1708 England; d. 1781 NC
__1.1. John David "Davie" York, b. 1725 PA; d. 1792 NC (Exclusive Quaker)
2. Richard York II, b. 1715 England; d. 1767 England
__2.1. John William York, b. 1740 England; d. 1829 SC
The ten children of the second marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson are:
1. Hannah Jane York, b. 1722 PA; d. 1787 NC
2. Elijah York, b. 1723 PA; d. 1779 PA, killed by Indians while hunting and trapping.
3. Jesse York, b. 1724 PA; d. 1810 KY
4. Elizabeth "Betty" Ann York, b. 1726 PA; d. 1790 NC
5. Semore York I, b. 1727 PA; d. 1783 NC
6. Thomas York I, b. 1729 PA; d. 1790 NC
7. Jeremiah York II, b. 1730 MD; d. 1797 KY
8. Henry York, b. 1732 MD; d. 1817 NC
9. Joseph York, b. 1734 VA; d. 1809 MS/AL
10. Sarah 'Elizabeth' York, b. 1735 VA; d. 1777 NC
Jeremiah York I is the first child of five or six children born to Richard York II and Ann Seymour. Jeremiah was christened on 9 September 1683 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Most likely this occurred at the St Peter and St Paul Church where the famous John Newton was later the preacher.
It is believed that Jeremiah York I, age 25, first married in about1708 to Sarah SEYMOUR, age 16, perhaps a daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. However, Jeremiah York's mother is identified as Ann SEYMOUR. His Grand mother is identified as Mary Jane SEYMOUR. For many decades in the twentieth century many Jeremiah York researchers have made the claim that Jeremiah York first married a Sarah SEYMOUR. Other researchers alleged Sarah SEYMOUR to be a cousin of Jeremiah. So far no English parish records have been discovered to establish the exact kinship relationship to his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR. It is very certain there was a close kinship between the SEYMOUR families and and the Jeremiah YORK families.
Never the less, the overwhelming evidence of a separate Quaker branch of the Jeremiah York descendants occurs exclusively among the John David York descendants who migrated into exclusive segregated Quaker communities in North Carolina.
Jeremiah York I and his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR had two known children. There may have been more children, yet undiscovered or some may have died as infants in England. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John David York perhaps named after his father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1714 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Sarah Seymour most likely died in 1714 at age 22 in England perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is suggested shortly after the death of Sarah, that Jeremiah York I, as a devastated widower husband, arranged for himself and his young son John to sail to America in about 1715-1717 with the family of his newly married sister, Ann Elizabeth YORK and new husband Solomon ALLRED. In addition, Jeremiah may have received some money from the Seymour family to pay for the voyage to America at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to start a new life.
Without any conflict, some researchers including Dennis York are convinced of a significant timeline scenario. It is proposed Solomon ALLRED I, age 30, is believed to have married in 1710 in England to 'Ann' Elizabeth YORK, age 22, daughter of Richard YORK II and Ann SEYMOUR. Their first child Solomon ALLRED II is proposed to be born in England in 1712. Likewise their second child Elizabeth ALLRED is proposed to be born in England in 1713. This is my logical explanation of the five year birth gap between the second and third child born in 1718 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This is consistent without conflict for their immigration to America in about 1715-1717.
Ann Elizabeth YORK is the youngest sister of Jeremiah YORK and their families were very close friends first in England. Most likely Jeremiah YORK I having just lost his first wife in England on 1714 had a new opportunity to voyage to America with his young son John YORK along with his younger married sister Ann Elizabeth YORK ALLRED and her two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED plus his new brother-in-law Solomon ALLRED I. The two month ocean voyage in about 1715 -1717 to America would have provided a great adventure for these two families. The children were first cousins which would provide for great travel companions. Solomon ALLRED I and Ann Elizabeth YORK, his new wife with their two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED, Jeremiah YORK I with his young son John David YORK created a bond between these two families that has endured for the centuries through their descendants.
Jeremiah and his young son John are believed to have first settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the Chester County, West Nottingham tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.
We know from the tax lists of West Nottingham, Jeremiah lived in Chester County until before 1732 perhaps until 1731. The first seven children of Jeremiah and Sarah were born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sometime after listing his taxes in 1729; Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson left their home in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania due to the dispute by two different Governors over taxes. The Governor in Pennsylvania and the Governor in Maryland, tried to collect property taxes both claiming the property they lived on. Years later this was settled by the famous survey by Mason & Dixon to establish the boundary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The West Nottingham Tax district became part of Cecil County, Maryland after the Mason and Dixon line settlement. Violence broke out west of the Nottingham Tax District in about 1732 called the Cresap's War over the borderline for Property Taxes. King Charles II of England soon established a temporary east-west border between Pennsylvania and Maryland on a line 15 1/4 miles south of Philadelphia. By 1737 a cease fire had been agreed to by the conflicting parties.
Most likely the Allred's and York's packed all their children, household goods and live stock to depart Chester County traveling together in farm wagons pulled by oxen or mules. Jeremiah and Sarah York migrated west in about 1731 with seven young children traveling west on the old Monocracy Wagon Road. The Solomon Allred and Ann York family with their four children traveled the same route together for overnight stops, cooking meals in a group for safety and security. They arrived in the Big Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland where the Monocracy Wagon Road was not yet fully developed westward for wagon travel. This area is south or west of the of the present day village of Keymar, Maryland.
West of this area is where the Big Pipe Creek and Little Pipe Creek converge to flow into the Monocracy River in a very low swampy muddy flood plane with very muddy waters. The areas near the Monocracy River are not suitable terrain for overnight or short term camping with no clean waters. The Allred's and York's most likely considered the best plan would be to pull aside from the Monocracy Wagon Road to find suitable higher ground and clean water. Sarah York was pregnant with her eighth child in need of a safe location to deliver and rest after the long trip from Chester County . They needed a convenient area with clean water nearby with green meadows for their live stock to forage and a place where camping for the coming fall and winter would be protected. Fording the Big Pipe Creek below a series of hills for protection from the northern winds was likely their selection. This area is just off the Monocracy Wagon Road from Philadelphia south or west of present day Keymar, the home of Francis Scott Key.
My extensive in the fall tour of 2003 plus an interview with a local historian in this geographical area in 2003 was most convincing as the temporary camping area where two York sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730/1731 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community camping area was most probably somewhere on a higher elevation south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland off the Monocracy Road near little Pipe Creek with clear clean water. The Pipe Creeks near the Monocracy River are very muddy due to the low muddy flood plane near the river that are not suitable as a safe camping area. These families needed a safe camping location away from the trail to spend the winter and spring while the men pushed further west clearing a wider trail suitable for wagon or foot travel in the wilderness into Virginia. They camped in a higher elevation area that is now near highway 194 perhaps in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N – Longitude 77.242133 W). This area is a few miles east to the Monocracy Road on the banks of the clean waters of Little Pipe Creek 50 miles west of the Union Bridge Community. Union Bridge Community on Little Pipe Creek which was not established until 1795 more than 63 years later than erroneously reported by other researchers. Reports of Henry York being born in the Union Bridge Community is in error based on a more modern development of the facts that Union Bridge did not exist until 1795.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge Lester, there is a record that states that Jeremiah's son Henry York was born on Pipe Creek on 6 Aug 1732. This Pipe Creek community was then in Monocracy Hundreds of Prince Georges County, Maryland for which a 1733 tax list exists. However, Jeremiah York is not listed on this tax list suggesting he had moved west into colonial Frederick County, Virginia before 1733 into an area that is today in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
By 1733/1735 the Jeremiah York I family with nine young children migrated further west to a new homestead on the beautiful high plateau of the "Terrapin Neck" peninsular. The Jeremiah York family was certainly living in Frederick County, Virginia Colony on part of a 2,300 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck", high plateau south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736. This was his home as shown on surveys by both Benjamin Winslow and William Mayo maps.
The "Terrapin Neck" tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 Nov 1735. Jost Hite was one of the affluent Palatine Germans who settled in Virginia as a land promoter, a colonial real estate agent.
This Hite family was most likely known by Jeremiah York I because both families had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania before arriving in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. It is not unlikely that Jeremiah York was one of the first settlers but would not make a deed with Hite. More probably, Jeremiah York moved into 323 acres of land on "Terrapin Neck" in early 1734 from the Pipe Creek settlement camp and positively we know by 1736. The Jeremiah York I family was part of this early land development of the Northern Neck of colonial Virginia.
Two more children were added to the Jeremiah York I family at Terrapin Neck; Joseph York in 1734 and Sarah 'Elizabeth' York in 1735. There were two older sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Elijah and Jesse York according to the research of Dr. Ron York descendant of Jeremiah York II.
Jeremiah York I was age 70, when he sold his 323 ares of land to William Chapline on 4 Jul 1753. The chain bearers on the survey were Thomas York and his nephew David York, who were two of Jeremiah's sons by two different wives. Thereafter the sale perhaps Jeremiah lived temporarily with one of his sons likely as a widower on the "Great Cacepehon River" to the west of "Terrapin Neck". Or he may have had an agreement with Chapline to stay in his home on Terrapin Neck for a while since Chapline had his own home on adjoining land or he could have stayed on his son Thomas York's land that adjoined Terrapin Neck. It is possible that Jeremiah York's wife Sara Wilson perhaps died at "Terrapin Neck" about 1752 when the property was sold . This may have been the abrupt event that led to the legal sale of his 323 acre "Terrapin Neck" property on the beautiful high bluffs of the Potomac River in 1753.
Jeremiah York I and his family of five sons and two daughters along with their minister Rev Elder Shubal Stearns migrated in wagon trains down the "Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia" through the Shenandoah Valley. Very possibly their Allred neighbors and friends across the Potomac River traveled in the same wagon train or a much earlier horse back trip into the Carolina s. In any case the they broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into central Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 to locate in the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755. The York family is believed to have migrated into Colonial Orange (Now Randolph)County, North Carolina in the late summer of 1755. The eldest son, Semore York, secured 640 acres on Sandy Creek with a Granville Land grant in 1756.
Semore York provided 120 acres on the north side of his land grant for his father Jeremiah York I to live on next to the Harmon HUSBAND Plantation on Sandy Creek. According to church history Semore York also donated two acres of land from his land grant for his pastor Rev Elder Shubal Stearns to created the historic Sandy Creek Baptist Church. The first church log cabin erected on the high hill in the south eastern section of the older section of the cemetery is described in the historic monument on the site.
The name "David York" also appears on the land records of old Frederick County, Virginia when he and Thomas York were chain carriers in a land survey on a tract on Opequon Creek made in 1763. It is believed that these two were nephew David York and uncle Thomas York had returned to Frederick County, Virginia from their new log cabins in the colonial North Carolina to settle the land they had left behind. This scenario is supported by the evidence the York family had already migrated into central North Carolina by 1755. John David York I (half brother) and his son John David York II, Semore York and Henry York are listed on the Colonial Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax List. These four plus the remaining sons were on the first 1779 Tax List of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elijah & Jesse York, most likely continued living with or near Jeremiah York II at the Forks of Opequon in Virginia since they did not go south to North Carolina with the senior Jeremiah York I and other brothers.
We know Jeremiah York I lived in Colonial Orange County, North Carolina most likely until around 1765 or longer on 120 acres of land belonging to his son Semore York I. In the 1782 will of Semore York is a declaration that: "It is my will that my executors do make a deed for one hundred and twenty acres of land to my son in law John Welborn (husband of my daughter Sarah York) that my father formerly lived on and likewise a claim of land containing about eighty acres adjoining to the aforesaid land". This is found in the Randolph County, North Carolina Will Book 1, pages 8, 9, & 10.
The above time line was developed by the joint combined research of Dr. Ron York and Dennis York in ©2013 descendants of Jeremiah York I.
©2019 Edit by Dennis York
David York is a grand son of the first Marriage of Jeremiah York in England. David was a nephew to his half uncle Thomas York, not a brother.
The son John York is from the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour. John York would need to be age 21 or more to be listing taxes in 1755, So he is believed to be the John York listed in the 1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List and the 1779 Randolph County, North Carolina Tax List.
The two surviving children of the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour are:
1. John York, b. 1708 England; d. 1781 NC
__1.1. John David "Davie" York, b. 1725 PA; d. 1792 NC (Exclusive Quaker)
2. Richard York II, b. 1715 England; d. 1767 England
__2.1. John William York, b. 1740 England; d. 1829 SC
The ten children of the second marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson are:
1. Hannah Jane York, b. 1722 PA; d. 1787 NC
2. Elijah York, b. 1723 PA; d. 1779 PA, killed by Indians while hunting and trapping.
3. Jesse York, b. 1724 PA; d. 1810 KY
4. Elizabeth "Betty" Ann York, b. 1726 PA; d. 1790 NC
5. Semore York I, b. 1727 PA; d. 1783 NC
6. Thomas York I, b. 1729 PA; d. 1790 NC
7. Jeremiah York II, b. 1730 MD; d. 1797 KY
8. Henry York, b. 1732 MD; d. 1817 NC
9. Joseph York, b. 1734 VA; d. 1809 MS/AL
10. Sarah 'Elizabeth' York, b. 1735 VA; d. 1777 NC
It is believed that Jeremiah York I, age 25, first married in about1708 to Sarah SEYMOUR, age 16, perhaps a daughter of John Seymour and his wife Johanna Kennedy. However, Jeremiah York's mother is identified as Ann SEYMOUR. His Grand mother is identified as Mary Jane SEYMOUR. For many decades in the twentieth century many Jeremiah York researchers have made the claim that Jeremiah York first married a Sarah SEYMOUR. Other researchers alleged Sarah SEYMOUR to be a cousin of Jeremiah. So far no English parish records have been discovered to establish the exact kinship relationship to his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR. It is very certain there was a close kinship between the SEYMOUR families and and the Jeremiah YORK families.
Never the less, the overwhelming evidence of a separate Quaker branch of the Jeremiah York descendants occurs exclusively among the John David York descendants who migrated into exclusive segregated Quaker communities in North Carolina.
Jeremiah York I and his first wife Sarah SEYMOUR had two known children. There may have been more children, yet undiscovered or some may have died as infants in England. Her first born child in 1708 is believed to be John David York perhaps named after his father John Seymour. Another child is believed to be Richard York IV born in 1714 at Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Sarah Seymour most likely died in 1714 at age 22 in England perhaps from complications at child birth of Richard York IV. It is suggested shortly after the death of Sarah, that Jeremiah York I, as a devastated widower husband, arranged for himself and his young son John to sail to America in about 1715-1717 with the family of his newly married sister, Ann Elizabeth YORK and new husband Solomon ALLRED. In addition, Jeremiah may have received some money from the Seymour family to pay for the voyage to America at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to start a new life.
Without any conflict, some researchers including Dennis York are convinced of a significant timeline scenario. It is proposed Solomon ALLRED I, age 30, is believed to have married in 1710 in England to 'Ann' Elizabeth YORK, age 22, daughter of Richard YORK II and Ann SEYMOUR. Their first child Solomon ALLRED II is proposed to be born in England in 1712. Likewise their second child Elizabeth ALLRED is proposed to be born in England in 1713. This is my logical explanation of the five year birth gap between the second and third child born in 1718 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This is consistent without conflict for their immigration to America in about 1715-1717.
Ann Elizabeth YORK is the youngest sister of Jeremiah YORK and their families were very close friends first in England. Most likely Jeremiah YORK I having just lost his first wife in England on 1714 had a new opportunity to voyage to America with his young son John YORK along with his younger married sister Ann Elizabeth YORK ALLRED and her two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED plus his new brother-in-law Solomon ALLRED I. The two month ocean voyage in about 1715 -1717 to America would have provided a great adventure for these two families. The children were first cousins which would provide for great travel companions. Solomon ALLRED I and Ann Elizabeth YORK, his new wife with their two young children, Solomon ALLRED II and Elizabeth ALLRED, Jeremiah YORK I with his young son John David YORK created a bond between these two families that has endured for the centuries through their descendants.
Jeremiah and his young son John are believed to have first settled in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. There Jeremiah York is found in the Chester County, West Nottingham tax lists period from 1718 to 1729.
We know from the tax lists of West Nottingham, Jeremiah lived in Chester County until before 1732 perhaps until 1731. The first seven children of Jeremiah and Sarah were born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sometime after listing his taxes in 1729; Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson left their home in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania due to the dispute by two different Governors over taxes. The Governor in Pennsylvania and the Governor in Maryland, tried to collect property taxes both claiming the property they lived on. Years later this was settled by the famous survey by Mason & Dixon to establish the boundary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The West Nottingham Tax district became part of Cecil County, Maryland after the Mason and Dixon line settlement. Violence broke out west of the Nottingham Tax District in about 1732 called the Cresap's War over the borderline for Property Taxes. King Charles II of England soon established a temporary east-west border between Pennsylvania and Maryland on a line 15 1/4 miles south of Philadelphia. By 1737 a cease fire had been agreed to by the conflicting parties.
Most likely the Allred's and York's packed all their children, household goods and live stock to depart Chester County traveling together in farm wagons pulled by oxen or mules. Jeremiah and Sarah York migrated west in about 1731 with seven young children traveling west on the old Monocracy Wagon Road. The Solomon Allred and Ann York family with their four children traveled the same route together for overnight stops, cooking meals in a group for safety and security. They arrived in the Big Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland where the Monocracy Wagon Road was not yet fully developed westward for wagon travel. This area is south or west of the of the present day village of Keymar, Maryland.
West of this area is where the Big Pipe Creek and Little Pipe Creek converge to flow into the Monocracy River in a very low swampy muddy flood plane with very muddy waters. The areas near the Monocracy River are not suitable terrain for overnight or short term camping with no clean waters. The Allred's and York's most likely considered the best plan would be to pull aside from the Monocracy Wagon Road to find suitable higher ground and clean water. Sarah York was pregnant with her eighth child in need of a safe location to deliver and rest after the long trip from Chester County . They needed a convenient area with clean water nearby with green meadows for their live stock to forage and a place where camping for the coming fall and winter would be protected. Fording the Big Pipe Creek below a series of hills for protection from the northern winds was likely their selection. This area is just off the Monocracy Wagon Road from Philadelphia south or west of present day Keymar, the home of Francis Scott Key.
My extensive in the fall tour of 2003 plus an interview with a local historian in this geographical area in 2003 was most convincing as the temporary camping area where two York sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730/1731 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community camping area was most probably somewhere on a higher elevation south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland off the Monocracy Road near little Pipe Creek with clear clean water. The Pipe Creeks near the Monocracy River are very muddy due to the low muddy flood plane near the river that are not suitable as a safe camping area. These families needed a safe camping location away from the trail to spend the winter and spring while the men pushed further west clearing a wider trail suitable for wagon or foot travel in the wilderness into Virginia. They camped in a higher elevation area that is now near highway 194 perhaps in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N – Longitude 77.242133 W). This area is a few miles east to the Monocracy Road on the banks of the clean waters of Little Pipe Creek 50 miles west of the Union Bridge Community. Union Bridge Community on Little Pipe Creek which was not established until 1795 more than 63 years later than erroneously reported by other researchers. Reports of Henry York being born in the Union Bridge Community is in error based on a more modern development of the facts that Union Bridge did not exist until 1795.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge Lester, there is a record that states that Jeremiah's son Henry York was born on Pipe Creek on 6 Aug 1732. This Pipe Creek community was then in Monocracy Hundreds of Prince Georges County, Maryland for which a 1733 tax list exists. However, Jeremiah York is not listed on this tax list suggesting he had moved west into colonial Frederick County, Virginia before 1733 into an area that is today in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
By 1733/1735 the Jeremiah York I family with nine young children migrated further west to a new homestead on the beautiful high plateau of the "Terrapin Neck" peninsular. The Jeremiah York family was certainly living in Frederick County, Virginia Colony on part of a 2,300 acre tract of land called "Terrapin Neck", high plateau south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736. This was his home as shown on surveys by both Benjamin Winslow and William Mayo maps.
The "Terrapin Neck" tract had been purchased by John Browning from Jost Hite who had James Wood make a survey on 10 Nov 1735. Jost Hite was one of the affluent Palatine Germans who settled in Virginia as a land promoter, a colonial real estate agent.
This Hite family was most likely known by Jeremiah York I because both families had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania before arriving in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. It is not unlikely that Jeremiah York was one of the first settlers but would not make a deed with Hite. More probably, Jeremiah York moved into 323 acres of land on "Terrapin Neck" in early 1734 from the Pipe Creek settlement camp and positively we know by 1736. The Jeremiah York I family was part of this early land development of the Northern Neck of colonial Virginia.
Two more children were added to the Jeremiah York I family at Terrapin Neck; Joseph York in 1734 and Sarah 'Elizabeth' York in 1735. There were two older sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Elijah and Jesse York according to the research of Dr. Ron York descendant of Jeremiah York II.
Jeremiah York I was age 70, when he sold his 323 ares of land to William Chapline on 4 Jul 1753. The chain bearers on the survey were Thomas York and his nephew David York, who were two of Jeremiah's sons by two different wives. Thereafter the sale perhaps Jeremiah lived temporarily with one of his sons likely as a widower on the "Great Cacepehon River" to the west of "Terrapin Neck". Or he may have had an agreement with Chapline to stay in his home on Terrapin Neck for a while since Chapline had his own home on adjoining land or he could have stayed on his son Thomas York's land that adjoined Terrapin Neck. It is possible that Jeremiah York's wife Sara Wilson perhaps died at "Terrapin Neck" about 1752 when the property was sold . This may have been the abrupt event that led to the legal sale of his 323 acre "Terrapin Neck" property on the beautiful high bluffs of the Potomac River in 1753.
Jeremiah York I and his family of five sons and two daughters along with their minister Rev Elder Shubal Stearns migrated in wagon trains down the "Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia" through the Shenandoah Valley. Very possibly their Allred neighbors and friends across the Potomac River traveled in the same wagon train or a much earlier horse back trip into the Carolina s. In any case the they broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into central Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 to locate in the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755. The York family is believed to have migrated into Colonial Orange (Now Randolph)County, North Carolina in the late summer of 1755. The eldest son, Semore York, secured 640 acres on Sandy Creek with a Granville Land grant in 1756.
Semore York provided 120 acres on the north side of his land grant for his father Jeremiah York I to live on next to the Harmon HUSBAND Plantation on Sandy Creek. According to church history Semore York also donated two acres of land from his land grant for his pastor Rev Elder Shubal Stearns to created the historic Sandy Creek Baptist Church. The first church log cabin erected on the high hill in the south eastern section of the older section of the cemetery is described in the historic monument on the site.
The name "David York" also appears on the land records of old Frederick County, Virginia when he and Thomas York were chain carriers in a land survey on a tract on Opequon Creek made in 1763. It is believed that these two were nephew David York and uncle Thomas York had returned to Frederick County, Virginia from their new log cabins in the colonial North Carolina to settle the land they had left behind. This scenario is supported by the evidence the York family had already migrated into central North Carolina by 1755. John David York I (half brother) and his son John David York II, Semore York and Henry York are listed on the Colonial Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax List. These four plus the remaining sons were on the first 1779 Tax List of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elijah & Jesse York, most likely continued living with or near Jeremiah York II at the Forks of Opequon in Virginia since they did not go south to North Carolina with the senior Jeremiah York I and other brothers.
We know Jeremiah York I lived in Colonial Orange County, North Carolina most likely until around 1765 or longer on 120 acres of land belonging to his son Semore York I. In the 1782 will of Semore York is a declaration that: "It is my will that my executors do make a deed for one hundred and twenty acres of land to my son in law John Welborn (husband of my daughter Sarah York) that my father formerly lived on and likewise a claim of land containing about eighty acres adjoining to the aforesaid land". This is found in the Randolph County, North Carolina Will Book 1, pages 8, 9, & 10.
The above time line was developed by the joint combined research of Dr. Ron York and Dennis York in ©2013 descendants of Jeremiah York I.
©2019 Edit by Dennis York
David York is a grand son of the first Marriage of Jeremiah York in England. David was a nephew to his half uncle Thomas York, not a brother.
The son John York is from the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour. John York would need to be age 21 or more to be listing taxes in 1755, So he is believed to be the John York listed in the 1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List and the 1779 Randolph County, North Carolina Tax List.
The two surviving children of the first marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Seymour are:
1. John York, b. 1708 England; d. 1781 NC
__1.1. John David "Davie" York, b. 1725 PA; d. 1792 NC (Exclusive Quaker)
2. Richard York II, b. 1715 England; d. 1767 England
__2.1. John William York, b. 1740 England; d. 1829 SC
The ten children of the second marriage of Jeremiah York I and Sarah Ann Wilson are:
1. Hannah Jane York, b. 1722 PA; d. 1787 NC
2. Elijah York, b. 1723 PA; d. 1779 PA, killed by Indians while hunting and trapping.
3. Jesse York, b. 1724 PA; d. 1810 KY
4. Elizabeth "Betty" Ann York, b. 1726 PA; d. 1790 NC
5. Semore York I, b. 1727 PA; d. 1783 NC
6. Thomas York I, b. 1729 PA; d. 1790 NC
7. Jeremiah York II, b. 1730 MD; d. 1797 KY
8. Henry York, b. 1732 MD; d. 1817 NC
9. Joseph York, b. 1734 VA; d. 1809 MS/AL
10. Sarah 'Elizabeth' York, b. 1735 VA; d. 1777 NC
Inscription
IMMIGRANT FROM OLNEY, BUCKINGHAMSIRE, ENGLAND; SON OF RICHARD YORK II
Family Members
Children
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John 'David' York I
1708–1778
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Richard York IV
1712–1767
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Hannah Jane York Routh
1722–1787
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Elijah York
1723–1779
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Jesse York
1724–1810
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Elizabeth Ann "Betty" York Diffee
1726–1790
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Semore York Sr
1727–1783
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Thomas York I
1729–1790
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Jeremiah York II
1730–1797
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Henry York
1732–1817
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Joseph Cowan York I
1734–1809
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Sarah Elizabeth York Allred
1735–1777
