Person:Thomas Pindall (1)

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Name[1] Thomas Pindall
Gender Male
Marriage Bef 1781 Monongalia, Virginiato Elizabeth Harrison
Marriage Harrison, West Virginia, United Statesto Julia Scott (add)
Property? 7 Aug 1787 Harrison, Virginia (later West Virginia), United Statespatented land in Monongalia county
Death? 19 May 1795 Monongalia, West Virginia, United States

Research Notes

from http://www.jonesgenealogy.net/histories/FoulkFamilyOutline.htm

Zinn, v. 6, p. 147

  • 1805 May 5 - August 1806. 145b-1806. Elizabeth Pindall, Jerima Pindall and Rachel Pindall, heirs of Thomas Pindall by their guardian, Thomas R. Chipps, summoned to answer a bill in Chancery exhibited against them by John Chisler. Robert Minnis sold the lot to Jacob Foulk.

Zinn, v. 3, p. 139

  • 1807 May 4. 89a. Thomas R. Chipps summoned to answer John E. Bills and Ruth his wife in a plea of slander, Dec. 16, 1805. Bills complained that Chipps said he "knew that James Pindall visited Mrs. Bills and that he, on a certain night, did take Pindall's great coat and boots and did go to the house of where Ruth lived and knocked at the front door and that she (Ruth) asked him (Chipps) why he did not come round to the door where he usually came in, she believing him to be the said Pindall. He did do so and found her in bed and that he had full enjoyment of her and that all the time she believed that it was Pindall had to do with her and that she asked how it happened that he performed so much better than he had done before." ... Elihu Horton summoned to testify in behalf of Chipps, May 20, 1807…Gertright Foulk. Summoned to testify in behalf of Bills, May 4, 1807. May 1807 term of court, "We the jury find for the plaintiff $25 damage, James Thomas, foreman.

Zinn, v. 7, p. 127-130

  • 1810 June 15. 163b-1810. Dispute between John Sullivan and Pindall family over ownership of land. About 1791, John Sullivan purchased from Thomas Pindall a lot of ground bounded on the west by Water Street, by a lot claimed by Jacob Foulk, formerly Asa Dudley, on the south, by the Baptist Meeting House and burying ground on the east and by an alley on the north where now and since that time he has resided.

Zinn, v. 10, p. 232

  • 1818 March. Jacob Foulk summoned to answer James Pindall for the use of Joseph Campbell, in a plea of debt for $40 and $10 damage, August 12 and October 9, 1817. March 1818 term, entered up.
References
  1. Thomas Pindall, in Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910)
    372.

    Thomas Pindall.
    Thomas Pindall was an early settler in Monongalia County having entered his homestead of 400 acres on the Flaggy Meadow Run, his wife formerly Elizabeth Harrison was killed by Indians in 1781 almost in sight of Harrison's Fort on Crooked Run now in Cass District.
    His second wife was Julia Scott, who was the mother of the celebrated lawyer James Pindall of Clarksburg and of the three sisters who passed their married lives in Clarksburg, Jemima, who married George I. Davisson, Elizabeth, who married Forbes Britton and Rachel, who married Thomas P. Moore.
    Mrs. Britton died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana of the yellow fever while on a visit to her son, Captain Forbes Britton, 7th. Infantry U.S. Army.
    The descendants of these three sisters had a marked influence on the social and political life of Harrison County and filled positions of honor and trust both in civil and military life.

  2.   http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=delgroves&id=I4976.

    [Court Case involving land dispute of Pindall heirs]

    Pindall vs. Pindall--O. S. 43; N. S. 15--Bill filed 1st December, 1803.
    James, Elizabeth, Jemima and Rachel Pindell, all children and heirs of
    Thomas Pindall, deceased, who died 19th May, 1795, intestate, owning
    lands in Monongalia joining lands of James Scott, Isaac Lemasters, Charles
    Dawson, patented to Thos. 7th August, 1787; also a tract in Monongalia
    adjoining John Ferguson, Weaver, part of 200 acres patented to Thos. 10th
    October, 1786; also 194 acres in Monongalia adjoining James Cochran and
    Zaquil Morgan, part of 200 acres patented to Thomas 2d December, 1791;
    261 acres in Monongalia between Thomas and Jacob Pindell, part of 400
    acres patented to Thomas 26th October, 1786.

    400 acres in Randolph on Glady Creek, including the Turkey Lick and adjoining lands claimed
    by Lewis and McClenachan, patented to Thomas 23d June, 1786.

    500 acres formerly in Harrison but now in Kenaway, part of 1,000 acres
    patented to Thomas _____ November, 1792.

    2 lots in Morgantown, 1 conveyed by George Holenback and wife, 1786, and 2d by Zaquil Morgan, proprietor
    of the town, and Druzella, his wife, 10th May, 1784.

    Also lot 5 in Morgantown, from Morgan and wife, 10th May, 1784.
    Also lot 12 in Morgantown, from Morgan and wife, 10th May, 1784.
    Also lot 13 in Morgantown, from Morgan and wife, 13th December, 1784.
    Also lot in Morgantown, from Morgan and wife, 13th February, 1786.
    Also lot in Morgantown, from Morgan and wife, 13th December, 1784.

    400 acres in Randolph County on Glady Creek, granted to Thomas Harrison
    upon a settlement right.

    400 acres in Monongalia between White Day
    Creek and Morgan's Mill, adjoining Robinson Lucas, Morgan Morgan and
    Reuben Bonel, surveyed 15th December, 1783, 400 acres in Monongalia,
    surveyed 16th January, 1786, adjoining Jacob Pindel, Hugh Evans, and Isaac
    Lemasters.

    400 acres located 12th October, 1785, in Monongalia adjoining
    Philip Pindell, and Robert Ferrell.

    200 acres located 2d October 1783,on Robinson's Run, adjoining George Wilson and James Scott.

    177 acres located in Monongalia, 9th July, 1792, below Dunker Mill Run place.

    1,000 acres located in Monongalia by Thomas Pindell and James Robison, 26th
    July, 1795.

    1,000 acres located in Monongalia adjoining Charles Overton,
    David Morgan and William Robison, the widow Scott and Robert Hill.

    323 acres in Monongalia granted _____ Weaver and by Weaver to Thomas
    Pindell, adjoining lands of James Scott, Jacob Scott, the Rich Wood tract
    and John Hamilton.

    383 acres in Monongalia patented to David Scott and
    by him conveyed to Thomas.

    800 acres in Randolph patented to Thomas.

    17 acres in Monongalia.

    Philip Pindell died intestate, __ April, 1801,owning 134 acres in Monongalia adjoining Barker & Cox on Indian Creek. Philip had three sons, viz: Jacob, Thomas, and Edward, and one
    daughter, Rachel. Thomas and Edward died in Philip's life time; Edward
    left two children, viz: Levi and Elizabeth. Levi in life time of Philip,
    the grandfather, and after death of Edward the father, received an
    advancement from Philip; Elizabeth, Jemima and Rachel are children and
    heirs of Thomas Pindell, son of Philip; Elizabeth, Jemima and Rachel are
    infants. Division of the lands.