Jeremiah YORK II was the seventh of ten children born to Jeremiah YORK I and his wife Sarah Ann WILSON. 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 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.
Jeremiah YORK I and Sarah migrated west with six young children born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. They arrived in the Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland between the Little and Big Pipe Creeks. It is believed by Genealogist Dennis York this is in the vicinity south of the village of Keymar, Maryland which is on the Monocracy Road an old wagon road from Philadelphia. An extensive tour and review of this area by Dennis York in 2003 was the most convincing terrain near the Pipe Creek as the temporary home where two sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community area was most likely south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland on the Monocracy Road which is now highway 194 in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N - Longitude 77.242133 W) that fronted on the Monocracy Road on the banks of the Little Pipe Creek west of the Union Bridge Community.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge LESSTER, 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 1732/1733 the Jeremiah YORK I family with eight young children migrated further west into a new homestead on the beautiful "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”, south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736 as his home was 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.
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 I was one of the first settlers. More probably, Jeremiah YORK I moved into 323 acres of land on “Terrapin Neck” in late 1732 or early 1733 from the Pipe Creek settlement 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. Thus making a total of ten children. There were two sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania that are rarely ever identified. These were hunters and trappers; Elijah and Jesse YORK according to the research of Dr. Ron YORK descendant of Jeremiah YORK II.
Jeremiah YORK II (1730 VA -1797 KY) married Mary THOMAS in 1751 and were living at the Forks of the Cacapon River (aka Great Cacepehon) west of Terrapin Neck next to Henry ENOCH and Joseph MITCHELL by 1753. Mary THOMAS had been briefly first married to a Mr. BROWN who died in 1750 three years after their marriage.
West of Terrapin Neck on the Potomac River, the Jeremiah YORK II family were living at the Enoch Fort at the forks of the Capon stockade or Fort Capon. The men who occupied it had to go outside the fort about four miles to cultivate a fine fertile field on low ground near the river to produce bread for their support. In the year 1757 or 1758, two men, one named BOWERS and the other YORK, walked to the field to see how things were going on. On their return in the evening they were waylaid by seven Indians. BOWERS was shot and fell dead. YORK ran, was pursued by three Indians, and took across a high ridge. One of the pursuers tired before he reached the top; the others continued the chase. After running a considerable distance, a second gave out. The third got so near that he several times extended his arm to seize York; but failed, and York got safely into the Fort Capon. Dr. Ron YORK states “I believe this "YORK" was likely my ancestor Jeremiah YORK II, who was living next to Henry Enoch's fort at the Forks of the Cacapon River. However, I can't rule out his older brothers Elijah & Jesse YORK, who may also have been living with or near Jeremiah YORK II at the Forks since they did not go south to North Carolina in 1755 with the senior Jeremiah YORKk I and other brothers.”
The Cacapon is a river flowing north that enters the Potomac River from the south in what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia. The Jeremiah YORK II and his brothers Elijah and Jesse were great woodsmen, hunters and trappers in the mountains of Virginia and western Pennsylvania. They did not migrate to North Carolina in 1755 with their father Jeremiah YORK I but stayed in Virginia and later migrated with their large family to western Pennsylvania sometime between 1768 and 1773, before the Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War the Jeremiah YORK II family floated down the Ohio River and settled in 1788 in northern Kentucky at Dover, Mason County.
There is no known tombstone of Jeremiah YORK II and his wife. The old Dover Cemetery appears to contain perhaps the oldest interment of the few cemeteries identified in Dover. The interment of Jeremiah YORK II in the old Dover Cemetery is only a proposed scenario based on the description of the cemetery and geographic location. This memorial is to honor Jeremiah YORK II and should be considered a Cenotaph due to the lack of exact location of his burial.
His will filed by his widow named three sons; Jesse, Joshua, and Jeremiah YORK. However, the HISTORY of CRAWFORD COUNTY, IL indicated two more that were brothers to the a bove: William and Ezekiel YORK. Wife Mary had probated will in Mason, KY in 1797. Inventory of Will - Book A, page 269, dated 26 jun 1797. Mason, Kentucky
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Dorthy YORK; [email protected]
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When Joshua YORK was born on January 22, 1756, in Virginia, his legal father, Jeremiah, was 26 and his legal mother, Mary, was 26. He married Nancy MCDANIEL about 1780 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They had 11 children in 21 years. He died in 1846 in Salt Creek, Indiana, and was buried in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana. The YDNA testing of several of the living male YORK descendants of Joshua YORK all matched each other but do not match the YDNA test results of the other living YORK descendants of the other brothers of their father Jeremiah YORK II (1730 -1797). This has been a real surprise and puzzle to the genealogical research of the Joshua YORK family. The YDNA test genetic profile results of the Joshua YORK descendants indicates that Jeremiah YORK II was not the biological genetic father of Joshua but Joshua YORK did grow up and was part of the Jeremiah YORK II family. Moreover it is likely that Mary THOMAS BROWN was not his natural mother upon review of the birth of the other Jeremiah YORK II children. Therefore it has been presumed Joshua YORK was an adopted orphan of another family surname. Perhaps Joshua was a nephew of his mother Mary THOMAS BROWN whose family experienced some tragedy? Perhaps Joshua was the son of his mother’s sister or brother an unknown BROWN or THOMAS? There is another more likely scenario that Joshua YORK was perhaps a surviving baby from one of the PARKER families that had been massacred by the marauding Native American Indians around Fort Enoch or Fort Parker along the Cacapon River where the Jeremiah YORK family lived during the French and Indian Wars. So Joshua was most likely an adopted loved son and part of the Jeremiah YORK II family.
We consider the Joshua YORK family and all their descendants an integral part of the Jeremiah YORK II family, even with their different genetic profile based on seven YDNA Y Chromosome tests of male descendants.
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George YORK [email protected] a descendant of Joshua YORK sent an Email on Fri, 15 Jun 2012 with a very significant observation. George YORK examined the birth dates of children surrounding his ancestor Joshua YORK born January 22, 1756, and counting back nine months to about May 22, 1775. I'm doing that because he possibly was not a York by his legal father, Jeremiah YORK II, who at that time was age 25. Jeremiah YORK II (1730-1797) already had three children. A fourth child, Joseph, was about to be born or had just been born. I do not know the exact date of Joseph's birth. If it was after Joshua's conception, it would prove Joshua YORK had a different mother as well as father.
The possibility is enhanced when we realize that the Jeremiah YORK II family lived in Frederick County, Virginia in an area of the Cacapon River which entered the Potomac River on the border with western wilderness, menaced by French-backed Native Americans. It was a hot spot in the French and Indian War which went on until 1763. Colonel George WASHINGTON and his Virginia militiamen went back and forth passing Fort Enoch a number of times. We know Jeremiah YORK II himself barely escaped death by marauding band of Indians. The event is remembered as "York's Run" to Fort Enoch. All of that made perfect the circumstances for an event leading to the possible adoption of an orphan with Parker YDNA considering there were Parker Families living in the same area.
Henry Enoch's Fort (1756 - 1766), Forks of Cacapon
A stockade built by the Virginia colonial militia, located about one-half mile above the mouth of the North River. Enoch’s Fort was also known by some writers as Forks of Capon Stockade or Fort Capon. The BRADDOCK Road crossed the Cacapon River just below the North River. Militia troops were stationed at Enoch's Mill in late 1755, located on Bloomery Run on the east-side of the Cacapon River. There was a Thomas PARKER's Fort(1754 - 1760's), near Hanging Rock. It was a settlers' stockade blockhouse on the west bank of the North River just below the Forks of the Cacapon River. It was also known as the North River Stockade.
Henry ENOCH of Frederick and Hampshire Counties Virginia Henry ENOCH was born about 1707 probably in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He was living in Kingsessing in 1730 when he signed an inventory of his brother John's estate. On April 23, 1750, Henry married Elizabeth ROSS, said to be a daughter of William & Arminella ROSS. An Elizabeth is showing on land records as Henry's wife. Henry and his brother Enoch both were in Maryland by 1737, shortly after their father's death. Their Enoch relatives were already there.
"Several lines of evidence suggest that Henry and Enoch Enoch were related to the Enochson family that lived along the Delaware River near Philadelphia in the late seventeenth century -- in the area known as New Sweden. . . Sometime after 1737 they migrated to Prince George's County near present day Hagerstown Maryland. In 1737 a Henry ENOCH was a witness to a will of Samuel Finely in 1737 in Prince George's County and in 1739 Gabriel, John and ENOCH signed a petition for a new county."
Both Henry and Enoch ENOCH were in Frederick County Virginia by 1749 where they appear in separate lawsuits.
In 1748, Lord FAIFFAX had sent a surveying party to survey his lands along the Potomac and South Branch Rivers which included present-day Hampshire County, West Virginia. Among the surveying party was 16 year-old George Washington who spent three summers and autumns surveying Lord Fairfax's estate, and he kept a journal. On December 13, 1753, Hampshire County Virginia was created by the Virginia General Assembly from parts of Frederick and Augusta counties Virginia.
There is a record of Henry ENOCH in George WASHINTON's journal showing that on April 23, 1750, George WASHINGTON surveyed 388 acres for Henry ENOCH in the forks of the Cacapahon (Cacapon) River. This river is spelled many different ways in early records. On April 25, 1750, Washington surveyed another tract for John NEWTON beginning at Henry Enoch's Corner. The next day Washington surveyed a tract of 200 acres on the South branch of Little Cacapahon (Cacapon) for John PARKER with Henry ENOCH serving as chain man.
Survey of Henry ENOCH's Land by George WASHINGTON
Colonial Hampshire Virginia County Road Orders 9 May 1750: Ordered that Henry ENOCH, Evan ROGERS, and John HOPKINS view the ground for a road from the mouth of the North Branch the most convenient and best way to this courthouse and make their report to the next Court and also what number of titheables are convenient to work on the said road.
The April 22, 1753 Henry ENOCH grant of 388, surveyed by George WASHINGTON, was recorded. In 1756, Henry ENOCH, Sr. and Henry ENOCH, Jr. were sued by Colonel Thomas CRESAP over this same land - details are unknown.
Although Hampshire County's creation from Frederick County Virginia had been authorized in 1753, it was not actually organized until 1757 due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754. Although many people fled the area, it appears that Henry stayed in Hampshire County along with other families who were near Fort Pearsall, near the present day Romney, and Fort Edward, at Capon Bridge. In 1755 Henry ENOCH's plantation was selected as one of the points through which Braddock's army was to march on its way to Fort Duquesne. General Edward BRADDOCK's army rested at the Forks of Cacapon on the march to the Monongahela and what was described as the most difficult stretch of the entire march to the Ohio River. Dunbar's retreating troops also stayed there while passing through after their defeat. Numerous military convoys stopped at Enoch's carrying supplies for Braddock's army and for Fort Cumberland.
In May 1756 the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, at the urging of Colonel George WASHINGTON, ordered a chain of forts to be built from Henry ENOCH's at the Forks of Capon south to Halifax County. They believed Henry ENOCH’s plantation on great Capecahon (Cacapon), was an advisable place to build a second fort because it would defend the inhabitants on the waters of Capecapon (Cacapon), would be contiguous to the settlements on the heads of the waters of Sleepy and Back creeks, and maintain the communication with the Forts on Patterson’s Creek.
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Jeremiah YORK II, age 22, married Mary THOMAS, age 22, on 15 Oct 1752 in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. Four years earlier Mary Thomas, age 18, allegedly married a Mr. Brown in about 1748. There have not been any BROWN children identified from this earlier marriage.
Jeremiah YORK II and Mary THOMAS are known to have the following children including the adopted son Joshua:
1. John YORK, b. 1752 VA; d. 1835 MO
2. William YORK, b. 1753 VA; d. 1822 IL
3. Ezekiel YORK, Sr., b. 1754 VA; d. 1820 KY
4. Jesse YORK, Sr., b. 1755 VA; d. 1804 KY
5. Joshua YORK, Sr. b. 1756 VA; d. 1846 IN
6. Susannah YORK, b. 1760 VA; d. 1838 KY
7. Jeremiah YORK III, b. 1762 VA: d. 1835 IN
Jeremiah YORK I and Sarah migrated west with six young children born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. They arrived in the Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland between the Little and Big Pipe Creeks. It is believed by Genealogist Dennis York this is in the vicinity south of the village of Keymar, Maryland which is on the Monocracy Road an old wagon road from Philadelphia. An extensive tour and review of this area by Dennis York in 2003 was the most convincing terrain near the Pipe Creek as the temporary home where two sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community area was most likely south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland on the Monocracy Road which is now highway 194 in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N - Longitude 77.242133 W) that fronted on the Monocracy Road on the banks of the Little Pipe Creek west of the Union Bridge Community.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge LESSTER, 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 1732/1733 the Jeremiah YORK I family with eight young children migrated further west into a new homestead on the beautiful "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”, south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736 as his home was 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.
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 I was one of the first settlers. More probably, Jeremiah YORK I moved into 323 acres of land on “Terrapin Neck” in late 1732 or early 1733 from the Pipe Creek settlement 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. Thus making a total of ten children. There were two sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania that are rarely ever identified. These were hunters and trappers; Elijah and Jesse YORK according to the research of Dr. Ron YORK descendant of Jeremiah YORK II.
Jeremiah YORK II (1730 VA -1797 KY) married Mary THOMAS in 1751 and were living at the Forks of the Cacapon River (aka Great Cacepehon) west of Terrapin Neck next to Henry ENOCH and Joseph MITCHELL by 1753. Mary THOMAS had been briefly first married to a Mr. BROWN who died in 1750 three years after their marriage.
West of Terrapin Neck on the Potomac River, the Jeremiah YORK II family were living at the Enoch Fort at the forks of the Capon stockade or Fort Capon. The men who occupied it had to go outside the fort about four miles to cultivate a fine fertile field on low ground near the river to produce bread for their support. In the year 1757 or 1758, two men, one named BOWERS and the other YORK, walked to the field to see how things were going on. On their return in the evening they were waylaid by seven Indians. BOWERS was shot and fell dead. YORK ran, was pursued by three Indians, and took across a high ridge. One of the pursuers tired before he reached the top; the others continued the chase. After running a considerable distance, a second gave out. The third got so near that he several times extended his arm to seize York; but failed, and York got safely into the Fort Capon. Dr. Ron YORK states “I believe this "YORK" was likely my ancestor Jeremiah YORK II, who was living next to Henry Enoch's fort at the Forks of the Cacapon River. However, I can't rule out his older brothers Elijah & Jesse YORK, who may also have been living with or near Jeremiah YORK II at the Forks since they did not go south to North Carolina in 1755 with the senior Jeremiah YORKk I and other brothers.”
The Cacapon is a river flowing north that enters the Potomac River from the south in what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia. The Jeremiah YORK II and his brothers Elijah and Jesse were great woodsmen, hunters and trappers in the mountains of Virginia and western Pennsylvania. They did not migrate to North Carolina in 1755 with their father Jeremiah YORK I but stayed in Virginia and later migrated with their large family to western Pennsylvania sometime between 1768 and 1773, before the Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War the Jeremiah YORK II family floated down the Ohio River and settled in 1788 in northern Kentucky at Dover, Mason County.
There is no known tombstone of Jeremiah YORK II and his wife. The old Dover Cemetery appears to contain perhaps the oldest interment of the few cemeteries identified in Dover. The interment of Jeremiah YORK II in the old Dover Cemetery is only a proposed scenario based on the description of the cemetery and geographic location. This memorial is to honor Jeremiah YORK II and should be considered a Cenotaph due to the lack of exact location of his burial.
His will filed by his widow named three sons; Jesse, Joshua, and Jeremiah YORK. However, the HISTORY of CRAWFORD COUNTY, IL indicated two more that were brothers to the a bove: William and Ezekiel YORK. Wife Mary had probated will in Mason, KY in 1797. Inventory of Will - Book A, page 269, dated 26 jun 1797. Mason, Kentucky
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Sources for this Family: Downloaded GEDCOM from RootsWeb: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dyork6240&id=I0083
Dorthy YORK; [email protected]
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When Joshua YORK was born on January 22, 1756, in Virginia, his legal father, Jeremiah, was 26 and his legal mother, Mary, was 26. He married Nancy MCDANIEL about 1780 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They had 11 children in 21 years. He died in 1846 in Salt Creek, Indiana, and was buried in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana. The YDNA testing of several of the living male YORK descendants of Joshua YORK all matched each other but do not match the YDNA test results of the other living YORK descendants of the other brothers of their father Jeremiah YORK II (1730 -1797). This has been a real surprise and puzzle to the genealogical research of the Joshua YORK family. The YDNA test genetic profile results of the Joshua YORK descendants indicates that Jeremiah YORK II was not the biological genetic father of Joshua but Joshua YORK did grow up and was part of the Jeremiah YORK II family. Moreover it is likely that Mary THOMAS BROWN was not his natural mother upon review of the birth of the other Jeremiah YORK II children. Therefore it has been presumed Joshua YORK was an adopted orphan of another family surname. Perhaps Joshua was a nephew of his mother Mary THOMAS BROWN whose family experienced some tragedy? Perhaps Joshua was the son of his mother’s sister or brother an unknown BROWN or THOMAS? There is another more likely scenario that Joshua YORK was perhaps a surviving baby from one of the PARKER families that had been massacred by the marauding Native American Indians around Fort Enoch or Fort Parker along the Cacapon River where the Jeremiah YORK family lived during the French and Indian Wars. So Joshua was most likely an adopted loved son and part of the Jeremiah YORK II family.
We consider the Joshua YORK family and all their descendants an integral part of the Jeremiah YORK II family, even with their different genetic profile based on seven YDNA Y Chromosome tests of male descendants.
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George YORK [email protected] a descendant of Joshua YORK sent an Email on Fri, 15 Jun 2012 with a very significant observation. George YORK examined the birth dates of children surrounding his ancestor Joshua YORK born January 22, 1756, and counting back nine months to about May 22, 1775. I'm doing that because he possibly was not a York by his legal father, Jeremiah YORK II, who at that time was age 25. Jeremiah YORK II (1730-1797) already had three children. A fourth child, Joseph, was about to be born or had just been born. I do not know the exact date of Joseph's birth. If it was after Joshua's conception, it would prove Joshua YORK had a different mother as well as father.
The possibility is enhanced when we realize that the Jeremiah YORK II family lived in Frederick County, Virginia in an area of the Cacapon River which entered the Potomac River on the border with western wilderness, menaced by French-backed Native Americans. It was a hot spot in the French and Indian War which went on until 1763. Colonel George WASHINGTON and his Virginia militiamen went back and forth passing Fort Enoch a number of times. We know Jeremiah YORK II himself barely escaped death by marauding band of Indians. The event is remembered as "York's Run" to Fort Enoch. All of that made perfect the circumstances for an event leading to the possible adoption of an orphan with Parker YDNA considering there were Parker Families living in the same area.
Henry Enoch's Fort (1756 - 1766), Forks of Cacapon
A stockade built by the Virginia colonial militia, located about one-half mile above the mouth of the North River. Enoch’s Fort was also known by some writers as Forks of Capon Stockade or Fort Capon. The BRADDOCK Road crossed the Cacapon River just below the North River. Militia troops were stationed at Enoch's Mill in late 1755, located on Bloomery Run on the east-side of the Cacapon River. There was a Thomas PARKER's Fort(1754 - 1760's), near Hanging Rock. It was a settlers' stockade blockhouse on the west bank of the North River just below the Forks of the Cacapon River. It was also known as the North River Stockade.
Henry ENOCH of Frederick and Hampshire Counties Virginia Henry ENOCH was born about 1707 probably in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He was living in Kingsessing in 1730 when he signed an inventory of his brother John's estate. On April 23, 1750, Henry married Elizabeth ROSS, said to be a daughter of William & Arminella ROSS. An Elizabeth is showing on land records as Henry's wife. Henry and his brother Enoch both were in Maryland by 1737, shortly after their father's death. Their Enoch relatives were already there.
"Several lines of evidence suggest that Henry and Enoch Enoch were related to the Enochson family that lived along the Delaware River near Philadelphia in the late seventeenth century -- in the area known as New Sweden. . . Sometime after 1737 they migrated to Prince George's County near present day Hagerstown Maryland. In 1737 a Henry ENOCH was a witness to a will of Samuel Finely in 1737 in Prince George's County and in 1739 Gabriel, John and ENOCH signed a petition for a new county."
Both Henry and Enoch ENOCH were in Frederick County Virginia by 1749 where they appear in separate lawsuits.
In 1748, Lord FAIFFAX had sent a surveying party to survey his lands along the Potomac and South Branch Rivers which included present-day Hampshire County, West Virginia. Among the surveying party was 16 year-old George Washington who spent three summers and autumns surveying Lord Fairfax's estate, and he kept a journal. On December 13, 1753, Hampshire County Virginia was created by the Virginia General Assembly from parts of Frederick and Augusta counties Virginia.
There is a record of Henry ENOCH in George WASHINTON's journal showing that on April 23, 1750, George WASHINGTON surveyed 388 acres for Henry ENOCH in the forks of the Cacapahon (Cacapon) River. This river is spelled many different ways in early records. On April 25, 1750, Washington surveyed another tract for John NEWTON beginning at Henry Enoch's Corner. The next day Washington surveyed a tract of 200 acres on the South branch of Little Cacapahon (Cacapon) for John PARKER with Henry ENOCH serving as chain man.
Survey of Henry ENOCH's Land by George WASHINGTON
Colonial Hampshire Virginia County Road Orders 9 May 1750: Ordered that Henry ENOCH, Evan ROGERS, and John HOPKINS view the ground for a road from the mouth of the North Branch the most convenient and best way to this courthouse and make their report to the next Court and also what number of titheables are convenient to work on the said road.
The April 22, 1753 Henry ENOCH grant of 388, surveyed by George WASHINGTON, was recorded. In 1756, Henry ENOCH, Sr. and Henry ENOCH, Jr. were sued by Colonel Thomas CRESAP over this same land - details are unknown.
Although Hampshire County's creation from Frederick County Virginia had been authorized in 1753, it was not actually organized until 1757 due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754. Although many people fled the area, it appears that Henry stayed in Hampshire County along with other families who were near Fort Pearsall, near the present day Romney, and Fort Edward, at Capon Bridge. In 1755 Henry ENOCH's plantation was selected as one of the points through which Braddock's army was to march on its way to Fort Duquesne. General Edward BRADDOCK's army rested at the Forks of Cacapon on the march to the Monongahela and what was described as the most difficult stretch of the entire march to the Ohio River. Dunbar's retreating troops also stayed there while passing through after their defeat. Numerous military convoys stopped at Enoch's carrying supplies for Braddock's army and for Fort Cumberland.
In May 1756 the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, at the urging of Colonel George WASHINGTON, ordered a chain of forts to be built from Henry ENOCH's at the Forks of Capon south to Halifax County. They believed Henry ENOCH’s plantation on great Capecahon (Cacapon), was an advisable place to build a second fort because it would defend the inhabitants on the waters of Capecapon (Cacapon), would be contiguous to the settlements on the heads of the waters of Sleepy and Back creeks, and maintain the communication with the Forts on Patterson’s Creek.
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Jeremiah YORK II, age 22, married Mary THOMAS, age 22, on 15 Oct 1752 in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. Four years earlier Mary Thomas, age 18, allegedly married a Mr. Brown in about 1748. There have not been any BROWN children identified from this earlier marriage.
Jeremiah YORK II and Mary THOMAS are known to have the following children including the adopted son Joshua:
1. John YORK, b. 1752 VA; d. 1835 MO
2. William YORK, b. 1753 VA; d. 1822 IL
3. Ezekiel YORK, Sr., b. 1754 VA; d. 1820 KY
4. Jesse YORK, Sr., b. 1755 VA; d. 1804 KY
5. Joshua YORK, Sr. b. 1756 VA; d. 1846 IN
6. Susannah YORK, b. 1760 VA; d. 1838 KY
7. Jeremiah YORK III, b. 1762 VA: d. 1835 IN
Jeremiah YORK II was the seventh of ten children born to Jeremiah YORK I and his wife Sarah Ann WILSON. 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 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.
Jeremiah YORK I and Sarah migrated west with six young children born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. They arrived in the Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland between the Little and Big Pipe Creeks. It is believed by Genealogist Dennis York this is in the vicinity south of the village of Keymar, Maryland which is on the Monocracy Road an old wagon road from Philadelphia. An extensive tour and review of this area by Dennis York in 2003 was the most convincing terrain near the Pipe Creek as the temporary home where two sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community area was most likely south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland on the Monocracy Road which is now highway 194 in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N - Longitude 77.242133 W) that fronted on the Monocracy Road on the banks of the Little Pipe Creek west of the Union Bridge Community.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge LESSTER, 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 1732/1733 the Jeremiah YORK I family with eight young children migrated further west into a new homestead on the beautiful "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”, south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736 as his home was 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.
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 I was one of the first settlers. More probably, Jeremiah YORK I moved into 323 acres of land on “Terrapin Neck” in late 1732 or early 1733 from the Pipe Creek settlement 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. Thus making a total of ten children. There were two sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania that are rarely ever identified. These were hunters and trappers; Elijah and Jesse YORK according to the research of Dr. Ron YORK descendant of Jeremiah YORK II.
Jeremiah YORK II (1730 VA -1797 KY) married Mary THOMAS in 1751 and were living at the Forks of the Cacapon River (aka Great Cacepehon) west of Terrapin Neck next to Henry ENOCH and Joseph MITCHELL by 1753. Mary THOMAS had been briefly first married to a Mr. BROWN who died in 1750 three years after their marriage.
West of Terrapin Neck on the Potomac River, the Jeremiah YORK II family were living at the Enoch Fort at the forks of the Capon stockade or Fort Capon. The men who occupied it had to go outside the fort about four miles to cultivate a fine fertile field on low ground near the river to produce bread for their support. In the year 1757 or 1758, two men, one named BOWERS and the other YORK, walked to the field to see how things were going on. On their return in the evening they were waylaid by seven Indians. BOWERS was shot and fell dead. YORK ran, was pursued by three Indians, and took across a high ridge. One of the pursuers tired before he reached the top; the others continued the chase. After running a considerable distance, a second gave out. The third got so near that he several times extended his arm to seize York; but failed, and York got safely into the Fort Capon. Dr. Ron YORK states “I believe this "YORK" was likely my ancestor Jeremiah YORK II, who was living next to Henry Enoch's fort at the Forks of the Cacapon River. However, I can't rule out his older brothers Elijah & Jesse YORK, who may also have been living with or near Jeremiah YORK II at the Forks since they did not go south to North Carolina in 1755 with the senior Jeremiah YORKk I and other brothers.”
The Cacapon is a river flowing north that enters the Potomac River from the south in what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia. The Jeremiah YORK II and his brothers Elijah and Jesse were great woodsmen, hunters and trappers in the mountains of Virginia and western Pennsylvania. They did not migrate to North Carolina in 1755 with their father Jeremiah YORK I but stayed in Virginia and later migrated with their large family to western Pennsylvania sometime between 1768 and 1773, before the Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War the Jeremiah YORK II family floated down the Ohio River and settled in 1788 in northern Kentucky at Dover, Mason County.
There is no known tombstone of Jeremiah YORK II and his wife. The old Dover Cemetery appears to contain perhaps the oldest interment of the few cemeteries identified in Dover. The interment of Jeremiah YORK II in the old Dover Cemetery is only a proposed scenario based on the description of the cemetery and geographic location. This memorial is to honor Jeremiah YORK II and should be considered a Cenotaph due to the lack of exact location of his burial.
His will filed by his widow named three sons; Jesse, Joshua, and Jeremiah YORK. However, the HISTORY of CRAWFORD COUNTY, IL indicated two more that were brothers to the a bove: William and Ezekiel YORK. Wife Mary had probated will in Mason, KY in 1797. Inventory of Will - Book A, page 269, dated 26 jun 1797. Mason, Kentucky
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Sources for this Family: Downloaded GEDCOM from RootsWeb: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dyork6240&id=I0083
Dorthy YORK; [email protected]
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When Joshua YORK was born on January 22, 1756, in Virginia, his legal father, Jeremiah, was 26 and his legal mother, Mary, was 26. He married Nancy MCDANIEL about 1780 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They had 11 children in 21 years. He died in 1846 in Salt Creek, Indiana, and was buried in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana. The YDNA testing of several of the living male YORK descendants of Joshua YORK all matched each other but do not match the YDNA test results of the other living YORK descendants of the other brothers of their father Jeremiah YORK II (1730 -1797). This has been a real surprise and puzzle to the genealogical research of the Joshua YORK family. The YDNA test genetic profile results of the Joshua YORK descendants indicates that Jeremiah YORK II was not the biological genetic father of Joshua but Joshua YORK did grow up and was part of the Jeremiah YORK II family. Moreover it is likely that Mary THOMAS BROWN was not his natural mother upon review of the birth of the other Jeremiah YORK II children. Therefore it has been presumed Joshua YORK was an adopted orphan of another family surname. Perhaps Joshua was a nephew of his mother Mary THOMAS BROWN whose family experienced some tragedy? Perhaps Joshua was the son of his mother’s sister or brother an unknown BROWN or THOMAS? There is another more likely scenario that Joshua YORK was perhaps a surviving baby from one of the PARKER families that had been massacred by the marauding Native American Indians around Fort Enoch or Fort Parker along the Cacapon River where the Jeremiah YORK family lived during the French and Indian Wars. So Joshua was most likely an adopted loved son and part of the Jeremiah YORK II family.
We consider the Joshua YORK family and all their descendants an integral part of the Jeremiah YORK II family, even with their different genetic profile based on seven YDNA Y Chromosome tests of male descendants.
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George YORK [email protected] a descendant of Joshua YORK sent an Email on Fri, 15 Jun 2012 with a very significant observation. George YORK examined the birth dates of children surrounding his ancestor Joshua YORK born January 22, 1756, and counting back nine months to about May 22, 1775. I'm doing that because he possibly was not a York by his legal father, Jeremiah YORK II, who at that time was age 25. Jeremiah YORK II (1730-1797) already had three children. A fourth child, Joseph, was about to be born or had just been born. I do not know the exact date of Joseph's birth. If it was after Joshua's conception, it would prove Joshua YORK had a different mother as well as father.
The possibility is enhanced when we realize that the Jeremiah YORK II family lived in Frederick County, Virginia in an area of the Cacapon River which entered the Potomac River on the border with western wilderness, menaced by French-backed Native Americans. It was a hot spot in the French and Indian War which went on until 1763. Colonel George WASHINGTON and his Virginia militiamen went back and forth passing Fort Enoch a number of times. We know Jeremiah YORK II himself barely escaped death by marauding band of Indians. The event is remembered as "York's Run" to Fort Enoch. All of that made perfect the circumstances for an event leading to the possible adoption of an orphan with Parker YDNA considering there were Parker Families living in the same area.
Henry Enoch's Fort (1756 - 1766), Forks of Cacapon
A stockade built by the Virginia colonial militia, located about one-half mile above the mouth of the North River. Enoch’s Fort was also known by some writers as Forks of Capon Stockade or Fort Capon. The BRADDOCK Road crossed the Cacapon River just below the North River. Militia troops were stationed at Enoch's Mill in late 1755, located on Bloomery Run on the east-side of the Cacapon River. There was a Thomas PARKER's Fort(1754 - 1760's), near Hanging Rock. It was a settlers' stockade blockhouse on the west bank of the North River just below the Forks of the Cacapon River. It was also known as the North River Stockade.
Henry ENOCH of Frederick and Hampshire Counties Virginia Henry ENOCH was born about 1707 probably in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He was living in Kingsessing in 1730 when he signed an inventory of his brother John's estate. On April 23, 1750, Henry married Elizabeth ROSS, said to be a daughter of William & Arminella ROSS. An Elizabeth is showing on land records as Henry's wife. Henry and his brother Enoch both were in Maryland by 1737, shortly after their father's death. Their Enoch relatives were already there.
"Several lines of evidence suggest that Henry and Enoch Enoch were related to the Enochson family that lived along the Delaware River near Philadelphia in the late seventeenth century -- in the area known as New Sweden. . . Sometime after 1737 they migrated to Prince George's County near present day Hagerstown Maryland. In 1737 a Henry ENOCH was a witness to a will of Samuel Finely in 1737 in Prince George's County and in 1739 Gabriel, John and ENOCH signed a petition for a new county."
Both Henry and Enoch ENOCH were in Frederick County Virginia by 1749 where they appear in separate lawsuits.
In 1748, Lord FAIFFAX had sent a surveying party to survey his lands along the Potomac and South Branch Rivers which included present-day Hampshire County, West Virginia. Among the surveying party was 16 year-old George Washington who spent three summers and autumns surveying Lord Fairfax's estate, and he kept a journal. On December 13, 1753, Hampshire County Virginia was created by the Virginia General Assembly from parts of Frederick and Augusta counties Virginia.
There is a record of Henry ENOCH in George WASHINTON's journal showing that on April 23, 1750, George WASHINGTON surveyed 388 acres for Henry ENOCH in the forks of the Cacapahon (Cacapon) River. This river is spelled many different ways in early records. On April 25, 1750, Washington surveyed another tract for John NEWTON beginning at Henry Enoch's Corner. The next day Washington surveyed a tract of 200 acres on the South branch of Little Cacapahon (Cacapon) for John PARKER with Henry ENOCH serving as chain man.
Survey of Henry ENOCH's Land by George WASHINGTON
Colonial Hampshire Virginia County Road Orders 9 May 1750: Ordered that Henry ENOCH, Evan ROGERS, and John HOPKINS view the ground for a road from the mouth of the North Branch the most convenient and best way to this courthouse and make their report to the next Court and also what number of titheables are convenient to work on the said road.
The April 22, 1753 Henry ENOCH grant of 388, surveyed by George WASHINGTON, was recorded. In 1756, Henry ENOCH, Sr. and Henry ENOCH, Jr. were sued by Colonel Thomas CRESAP over this same land - details are unknown.
Although Hampshire County's creation from Frederick County Virginia had been authorized in 1753, it was not actually organized until 1757 due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754. Although many people fled the area, it appears that Henry stayed in Hampshire County along with other families who were near Fort Pearsall, near the present day Romney, and Fort Edward, at Capon Bridge. In 1755 Henry ENOCH's plantation was selected as one of the points through which Braddock's army was to march on its way to Fort Duquesne. General Edward BRADDOCK's army rested at the Forks of Cacapon on the march to the Monongahela and what was described as the most difficult stretch of the entire march to the Ohio River. Dunbar's retreating troops also stayed there while passing through after their defeat. Numerous military convoys stopped at Enoch's carrying supplies for Braddock's army and for Fort Cumberland.
In May 1756 the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, at the urging of Colonel George WASHINGTON, ordered a chain of forts to be built from Henry ENOCH's at the Forks of Capon south to Halifax County. They believed Henry ENOCH’s plantation on great Capecahon (Cacapon), was an advisable place to build a second fort because it would defend the inhabitants on the waters of Capecapon (Cacapon), would be contiguous to the settlements on the heads of the waters of Sleepy and Back creeks, and maintain the communication with the Forts on Patterson’s Creek.
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Jeremiah YORK II, age 22, married Mary THOMAS, age 22, on 15 Oct 1752 in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. Four years earlier Mary Thomas, age 18, allegedly married a Mr. Brown in about 1748. There have not been any BROWN children identified from this earlier marriage.
Jeremiah YORK II and Mary THOMAS are known to have the following children including the adopted son Joshua:
1. John YORK, b. 1752 VA; d. 1835 MO
2. William YORK, b. 1753 VA; d. 1822 IL
3. Ezekiel YORK, Sr., b. 1754 VA; d. 1820 KY
4. Jesse YORK, Sr., b. 1755 VA; d. 1804 KY
5. Joshua YORK, Sr. b. 1756 VA; d. 1846 IN
6. Susannah YORK, b. 1760 VA; d. 1838 KY
7. Jeremiah YORK III, b. 1762 VA: d. 1835 IN
Jeremiah YORK I and Sarah migrated west with six young children born in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. They arrived in the Pipe Creek Settlement, Carroll (Prince George's) County, in central Maryland between the Little and Big Pipe Creeks. It is believed by Genealogist Dennis York this is in the vicinity south of the village of Keymar, Maryland which is on the Monocracy Road an old wagon road from Philadelphia. An extensive tour and review of this area by Dennis York in 2003 was the most convincing terrain near the Pipe Creek as the temporary home where two sons were born; Jeremiah York II in 1730 and Henry York in 1732. This Pipe Creek community area was most likely south of present day Keymar, Carroll County, Maryland on the Monocracy Road which is now highway 194 in the vicinity of the McGinnis Mill (Latitude 39.591410N - Longitude 77.242133 W) that fronted on the Monocracy Road on the banks of the Little Pipe Creek west of the Union Bridge Community.
In a book on Old Southern Bible records by Memory Aldridge LESSTER, 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 1732/1733 the Jeremiah YORK I family with eight young children migrated further west into a new homestead on the beautiful "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”, south of the Potomac River by 25 Oct 1736 as his home was 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.
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 I was one of the first settlers. More probably, Jeremiah YORK I moved into 323 acres of land on “Terrapin Neck” in late 1732 or early 1733 from the Pipe Creek settlement 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. Thus making a total of ten children. There were two sons born at West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania that are rarely ever identified. These were hunters and trappers; Elijah and Jesse YORK according to the research of Dr. Ron YORK descendant of Jeremiah YORK II.
Jeremiah YORK II (1730 VA -1797 KY) married Mary THOMAS in 1751 and were living at the Forks of the Cacapon River (aka Great Cacepehon) west of Terrapin Neck next to Henry ENOCH and Joseph MITCHELL by 1753. Mary THOMAS had been briefly first married to a Mr. BROWN who died in 1750 three years after their marriage.
West of Terrapin Neck on the Potomac River, the Jeremiah YORK II family were living at the Enoch Fort at the forks of the Capon stockade or Fort Capon. The men who occupied it had to go outside the fort about four miles to cultivate a fine fertile field on low ground near the river to produce bread for their support. In the year 1757 or 1758, two men, one named BOWERS and the other YORK, walked to the field to see how things were going on. On their return in the evening they were waylaid by seven Indians. BOWERS was shot and fell dead. YORK ran, was pursued by three Indians, and took across a high ridge. One of the pursuers tired before he reached the top; the others continued the chase. After running a considerable distance, a second gave out. The third got so near that he several times extended his arm to seize York; but failed, and York got safely into the Fort Capon. Dr. Ron YORK states “I believe this "YORK" was likely my ancestor Jeremiah YORK II, who was living next to Henry Enoch's fort at the Forks of the Cacapon River. However, I can't rule out his older brothers Elijah & Jesse YORK, who may also have been living with or near Jeremiah YORK II at the Forks since they did not go south to North Carolina in 1755 with the senior Jeremiah YORKk I and other brothers.”
The Cacapon is a river flowing north that enters the Potomac River from the south in what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia. The Jeremiah YORK II and his brothers Elijah and Jesse were great woodsmen, hunters and trappers in the mountains of Virginia and western Pennsylvania. They did not migrate to North Carolina in 1755 with their father Jeremiah YORK I but stayed in Virginia and later migrated with their large family to western Pennsylvania sometime between 1768 and 1773, before the Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War the Jeremiah YORK II family floated down the Ohio River and settled in 1788 in northern Kentucky at Dover, Mason County.
There is no known tombstone of Jeremiah YORK II and his wife. The old Dover Cemetery appears to contain perhaps the oldest interment of the few cemeteries identified in Dover. The interment of Jeremiah YORK II in the old Dover Cemetery is only a proposed scenario based on the description of the cemetery and geographic location. This memorial is to honor Jeremiah YORK II and should be considered a Cenotaph due to the lack of exact location of his burial.
His will filed by his widow named three sons; Jesse, Joshua, and Jeremiah YORK. However, the HISTORY of CRAWFORD COUNTY, IL indicated two more that were brothers to the a bove: William and Ezekiel YORK. Wife Mary had probated will in Mason, KY in 1797. Inventory of Will - Book A, page 269, dated 26 jun 1797. Mason, Kentucky
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Sources for this Family: Downloaded GEDCOM from RootsWeb: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dyork6240&id=I0083
Dorthy YORK; [email protected]
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When Joshua YORK was born on January 22, 1756, in Virginia, his legal father, Jeremiah, was 26 and his legal mother, Mary, was 26. He married Nancy MCDANIEL about 1780 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They had 11 children in 21 years. He died in 1846 in Salt Creek, Indiana, and was buried in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana. The YDNA testing of several of the living male YORK descendants of Joshua YORK all matched each other but do not match the YDNA test results of the other living YORK descendants of the other brothers of their father Jeremiah YORK II (1730 -1797). This has been a real surprise and puzzle to the genealogical research of the Joshua YORK family. The YDNA test genetic profile results of the Joshua YORK descendants indicates that Jeremiah YORK II was not the biological genetic father of Joshua but Joshua YORK did grow up and was part of the Jeremiah YORK II family. Moreover it is likely that Mary THOMAS BROWN was not his natural mother upon review of the birth of the other Jeremiah YORK II children. Therefore it has been presumed Joshua YORK was an adopted orphan of another family surname. Perhaps Joshua was a nephew of his mother Mary THOMAS BROWN whose family experienced some tragedy? Perhaps Joshua was the son of his mother’s sister or brother an unknown BROWN or THOMAS? There is another more likely scenario that Joshua YORK was perhaps a surviving baby from one of the PARKER families that had been massacred by the marauding Native American Indians around Fort Enoch or Fort Parker along the Cacapon River where the Jeremiah YORK family lived during the French and Indian Wars. So Joshua was most likely an adopted loved son and part of the Jeremiah YORK II family.
We consider the Joshua YORK family and all their descendants an integral part of the Jeremiah YORK II family, even with their different genetic profile based on seven YDNA Y Chromosome tests of male descendants.
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George YORK [email protected] a descendant of Joshua YORK sent an Email on Fri, 15 Jun 2012 with a very significant observation. George YORK examined the birth dates of children surrounding his ancestor Joshua YORK born January 22, 1756, and counting back nine months to about May 22, 1775. I'm doing that because he possibly was not a York by his legal father, Jeremiah YORK II, who at that time was age 25. Jeremiah YORK II (1730-1797) already had three children. A fourth child, Joseph, was about to be born or had just been born. I do not know the exact date of Joseph's birth. If it was after Joshua's conception, it would prove Joshua YORK had a different mother as well as father.
The possibility is enhanced when we realize that the Jeremiah YORK II family lived in Frederick County, Virginia in an area of the Cacapon River which entered the Potomac River on the border with western wilderness, menaced by French-backed Native Americans. It was a hot spot in the French and Indian War which went on until 1763. Colonel George WASHINGTON and his Virginia militiamen went back and forth passing Fort Enoch a number of times. We know Jeremiah YORK II himself barely escaped death by marauding band of Indians. The event is remembered as "York's Run" to Fort Enoch. All of that made perfect the circumstances for an event leading to the possible adoption of an orphan with Parker YDNA considering there were Parker Families living in the same area.
Henry Enoch's Fort (1756 - 1766), Forks of Cacapon
A stockade built by the Virginia colonial militia, located about one-half mile above the mouth of the North River. Enoch’s Fort was also known by some writers as Forks of Capon Stockade or Fort Capon. The BRADDOCK Road crossed the Cacapon River just below the North River. Militia troops were stationed at Enoch's Mill in late 1755, located on Bloomery Run on the east-side of the Cacapon River. There was a Thomas PARKER's Fort(1754 - 1760's), near Hanging Rock. It was a settlers' stockade blockhouse on the west bank of the North River just below the Forks of the Cacapon River. It was also known as the North River Stockade.
Henry ENOCH of Frederick and Hampshire Counties Virginia Henry ENOCH was born about 1707 probably in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He was living in Kingsessing in 1730 when he signed an inventory of his brother John's estate. On April 23, 1750, Henry married Elizabeth ROSS, said to be a daughter of William & Arminella ROSS. An Elizabeth is showing on land records as Henry's wife. Henry and his brother Enoch both were in Maryland by 1737, shortly after their father's death. Their Enoch relatives were already there.
"Several lines of evidence suggest that Henry and Enoch Enoch were related to the Enochson family that lived along the Delaware River near Philadelphia in the late seventeenth century -- in the area known as New Sweden. . . Sometime after 1737 they migrated to Prince George's County near present day Hagerstown Maryland. In 1737 a Henry ENOCH was a witness to a will of Samuel Finely in 1737 in Prince George's County and in 1739 Gabriel, John and ENOCH signed a petition for a new county."
Both Henry and Enoch ENOCH were in Frederick County Virginia by 1749 where they appear in separate lawsuits.
In 1748, Lord FAIFFAX had sent a surveying party to survey his lands along the Potomac and South Branch Rivers which included present-day Hampshire County, West Virginia. Among the surveying party was 16 year-old George Washington who spent three summers and autumns surveying Lord Fairfax's estate, and he kept a journal. On December 13, 1753, Hampshire County Virginia was created by the Virginia General Assembly from parts of Frederick and Augusta counties Virginia.
There is a record of Henry ENOCH in George WASHINTON's journal showing that on April 23, 1750, George WASHINGTON surveyed 388 acres for Henry ENOCH in the forks of the Cacapahon (Cacapon) River. This river is spelled many different ways in early records. On April 25, 1750, Washington surveyed another tract for John NEWTON beginning at Henry Enoch's Corner. The next day Washington surveyed a tract of 200 acres on the South branch of Little Cacapahon (Cacapon) for John PARKER with Henry ENOCH serving as chain man.
Survey of Henry ENOCH's Land by George WASHINGTON
Colonial Hampshire Virginia County Road Orders 9 May 1750: Ordered that Henry ENOCH, Evan ROGERS, and John HOPKINS view the ground for a road from the mouth of the North Branch the most convenient and best way to this courthouse and make their report to the next Court and also what number of titheables are convenient to work on the said road.
The April 22, 1753 Henry ENOCH grant of 388, surveyed by George WASHINGTON, was recorded. In 1756, Henry ENOCH, Sr. and Henry ENOCH, Jr. were sued by Colonel Thomas CRESAP over this same land - details are unknown.
Although Hampshire County's creation from Frederick County Virginia had been authorized in 1753, it was not actually organized until 1757 due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754. Although many people fled the area, it appears that Henry stayed in Hampshire County along with other families who were near Fort Pearsall, near the present day Romney, and Fort Edward, at Capon Bridge. In 1755 Henry ENOCH's plantation was selected as one of the points through which Braddock's army was to march on its way to Fort Duquesne. General Edward BRADDOCK's army rested at the Forks of Cacapon on the march to the Monongahela and what was described as the most difficult stretch of the entire march to the Ohio River. Dunbar's retreating troops also stayed there while passing through after their defeat. Numerous military convoys stopped at Enoch's carrying supplies for Braddock's army and for Fort Cumberland.
In May 1756 the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, at the urging of Colonel George WASHINGTON, ordered a chain of forts to be built from Henry ENOCH's at the Forks of Capon south to Halifax County. They believed Henry ENOCH’s plantation on great Capecahon (Cacapon), was an advisable place to build a second fort because it would defend the inhabitants on the waters of Capecapon (Cacapon), would be contiguous to the settlements on the heads of the waters of Sleepy and Back creeks, and maintain the communication with the Forts on Patterson’s Creek.
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Jeremiah YORK II, age 22, married Mary THOMAS, age 22, on 15 Oct 1752 in Colonial Frederick County, Virginia. Four years earlier Mary Thomas, age 18, allegedly married a Mr. Brown in about 1748. There have not been any BROWN children identified from this earlier marriage.
Jeremiah YORK II and Mary THOMAS are known to have the following children including the adopted son Joshua:
1. John YORK, b. 1752 VA; d. 1835 MO
2. William YORK, b. 1753 VA; d. 1822 IL
3. Ezekiel YORK, Sr., b. 1754 VA; d. 1820 KY
4. Jesse YORK, Sr., b. 1755 VA; d. 1804 KY
5. Joshua YORK, Sr. b. 1756 VA; d. 1846 IN
6. Susannah YORK, b. 1760 VA; d. 1838 KY
7. Jeremiah YORK III, b. 1762 VA: d. 1835 IN
Gravesite Details
The interment of Mary THOMAS and Jeremiah YORK II in the old Dover Cemetery is only a proposed scenario based on the description of the cemetery and its geographic location. This memorial is to honor this couple and should be considered a Cenotaph.
