Person:Zilpah Ramsey (3)

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2. ZILPAH2 RAMSEY (JAMES1) was born Abt. 1740, and died Unknown. She married JEREMIAH SULLIVAN December 1757. He was born 1735 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and died 1780 in Georgia.

Notes for ZILPAH RAMSEY: Moved to Mecklenberg Co., NC. NOTE: ZILPAH( ZELPAH) RAMSEY'S CONNECTION TO THIS RAMSEY FAMILY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED. (This record furnished by Jackie Stewart) The record was of poor quality - made 1943. From a bible record - On fly leaf "Zilpah Sullivans Bible" Under family record - 1st page - "My grandfather Jeremiah Sullivan was born 1735 in the state of No. Car. and co. of Mecklenburg. He mar. my grandmother (Zilpah Ramsey) at a Family Reunion held at Xmas 1757. My father Patrick Sullivan was born Jany 1759 and married with Mary Hannah Roots in December 1783. They moved on to Ninety-Six Dist. So. Car. & settled on Indian Lands." At bottom of page "I certify that above is a true and correct copy of t family record of Zilpah Sullivan as taken from the Family Bible. Sara S. Ervin Notary Public, Laurens County, SC Another page - onion skin paper - old - and didn't copy well - states Zilpah Ramsey, wife of Jeremiah sullivan: was said to have been 5 yrs. younger than her husband, that would make it 1740. Her death is said to have taken place when on a visit to relatives in NC and she was buried there. On same page Zilpah Locke, dau of Patrick Sullivan & wife of Benj. Locke, Jr. died Nov. 26, 1832. At the time her father's estate was settled, she was already married, had received her portion ind was living in SC.

The above material from the bible of Zilpah Sullivan was with a lett Mrs. Florence Russ Barkman in 1944. She lived in Arkansas.

Notes for JEREMIAH SULLIVAN: They moved to Mecklenberg Co.; NC

Jeremiah served in the Revolutionary War-Killed in battle

Children of ZILPAH RAMSEY and JEREMIAH SULLIVAN are:

 i.   DANIEL3 SULLIVAN, b. Abt. 1760, South Carolina; d. 1810, Mississippi; m. MARGARET BOYD; b. Unknown; d. Unknown. 
 Notes for DANIEL SULLIVAN:

Killed at the battle of Utawas Springs

6. ii. PATRICK SULLIVAN, b. January 01, 1758/59, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1819, South Carolina.

NOTE: Zilpah is NOT a proven child of James Ramsey and Margaret, however it is documented from the family bible of Jeremiah and Zilpah Sullivan that Zilpah's maiden name was Ramsey, that she was about 5 years younger than her husband, Jeremiah Sulliven (b. 1735), and it also documents an extremely close relationship between the Sullivans and Ramseys, especially with William and James Ramsey, Jr., both sons of James Ramsey and Margaret. With a birthdate of abt. 1740, this would have made Zilpah most likely the eldest of James and Margaret Ramsey's children. Since Zilpah is not listed in James Ramsey's administration after his death abt. 1760, it is thought that Zilpah most likely predeceased her father. Since James Ramsey, Sr. apparently died without a will, direct evidence will most likely be lacking.

1.   National No. 328148, in Daughters of the Amercian Revolution.

   Family records of Florence Russ Barkman DAR No. 328148 recorded that Zilpah Ramsey was born about 1740 in North Carolina, married Jeremiah Sullivan 25 Dec 1757, and died in Wilmington, NC during a visit with family. The parentage of Zilpah Ramsey has not been discovered, but clearly she was a native of North Carolina and her life events were not consistent with the family of James and Margaret Ramsey of Ulster, Ireland and Augusta Co., VA, where they lived out the remainder of their lives. In 1740, James and Margaret Ramsey had yet to embark from the North of Ireland to Pennsylvania. The winter of 1739-40 in Ulster was known as 'the time of the black frost' due to the unusually dark appearance of the ice and because the sun seldom shone during its continuance. In September of 1740, the Pennsylvania Gazette ran an advertisement for the ship master of the Mary Ann from Belfast. The ship had arrived in Philadelphia with a 'parcel of likely Men and Women servants' and a 'great Variety of White an Check linens.' The following spring, more ships from Ireland loaded with servants landed in Philadelphia. See Patrick Griffin, "The People with No Name (Princeton University Press, 2000, 159). The Ramsey family history and supporting records in Augusta Co., VA are consistent with James and Margaret Ramsey's arrival to Pennsylvania about 1741 as indentured emigrants with the birth of their first child, William, in Pennsylvania. See also Lyman Chalkley, "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia", 3 vols., 2:448, showing allowance was given to Widow Ramsey and four children, objects of charity dated 20 Nov 1761. Unfortunately, the court did not record the children's given names. These children were two sons and two daughters - (1) William Ramsey married Agnes/Nancy Boyd, (2) unknown daughter married John Johnston, (3) Margaret Ramsey married David Rodgers, (4) James Ramsey married unknown wife following his military service during the Revolutionary War.