Source:Starnes and Starnes, 1983

Bibliographic Citation

Starnes, H. Gerald and Herman Starnes, 1983. Of Them That Left A Name Behind: A History of the Starnes Family's First 125 Years and Beyond in America. Pub. Gateway Press, Baltimore

Book Description

From: Helen H., GEN-MAT-L Archives, 17 Sep 2004

Wine cloth hardback with gilt imprinting, 6-1/4x9-1/4, 785 pages, indexed, illustrated with wonderful topographical maps, bibliography; homesite photos and portraits; the front end pages have a topographical map of Scott County, Virginia, which the back ones have one for Livingston Parish, Louisiana. ...This book has evidently had years of historical research work invested in it, not to mention the genealogical research. They could very well made two books out of this - one a history, and the other a genealogy. Per the publisher:

"This volume traces the family immigration route from Alzey (a small village in Germany), to Holland, to London, to New York; from upstate NY to VA, then to NC, SC, KY, TN, and LA. It encompasses their participation in the making of American Frontier history on several fronts: early wilderness settlement, Indian fighting, and militia service in the French & Indian, Revolutionary, and 1812 Wars....Over 200 maps show where our Starnes/Starnes ancestors lived, farmed fought, died and are buried from the Hudson valleys in NY to the Holston and Clinch in VA; the Kentucky River, Cane Creek in NC; Lee and Nolichucky valleys in TN; and the Tickfaw in LA. Numerous lines and branches are presented in the extensive genealogical listings. This writing makes available an enlightening, entertaining narrative with supporting genetic lineages of this extremely colorful old family in the annals of American history. The detailed historical account and genealogical data contained in this compilation will allow most Starnes/Starns descendants to trace their individual line of ancestry.

Appendices address the unrelated English Stearns/Starns line and the apparently related early family of Charles Starnes in SC. The probabilities of direct immigration to VA and NC from Europe are also discussed, as is that via PA. Unable to make the NY Palatine connection, earlier searchers surmised that the old Virginia Starnes family of German descent must have come directly from Germany or Penn."

Contents include:

The Pfalz to London Towne

Leaving the Homeland

Rotterdam

Blackheath

From the Camps, Aboard the Transports & New York

Settlement Proposals

Decision at Last

New York Bound

New York, New York

Nutten Island to Livingston Manor

Hudson Valley Settlement

Queen Anne's War

Tar Making

West Camp to Schohare

On Their Own in a Wilderness

Gerlachsdorf

No Title to the Land

Schoharie to German Flats

Burnetsfield Patents

Southward Migration

One Wild Frontier to Another

New River Settlement

Visitors from the Outside World

Early Southwest Virginia

Frederick I Wounded: Drapers Meadow Attack

Cherokee Expedition: 1759-60

Between Colonial Wars:

Colonial Virginia

Indian Treaties and the Holston Settlement

Life on the Holston in the Early 1770s

The Revolutionary War:

Dedication to Those Who Lost Their Lives

Frederick II, Joseph I & Valentine Starnes

Point Pleasant Expedition: 1774

The War Begins: 1775

Cherokee Expedition: 1776

"The Bloody Sevens": 1777

In Relief of Boonesborough: 1778

"Starnes' Defeat"

Kentucky Invades the Shawnees: 1779

Kings Mountain: 1780

Records of the Year 1780

Cherokee Expedition: 1780-81

Estill's Defeat and the Battle of Blue Licks: 1782

End of the War: 1782-83

Virginia: Exodus and Return:

Most of the Starnes Leave Southwest Virginia

Conversion to Methodism

Those Who Stayed On For Several Years

Three Who Returned

The War of 1812:

Origins of the War

The Strategic Plan and First Campaign

Operations in the South

Action on the East Coast

Volunteer East Tennessee Companies

The Last Year of the War: 1814

New Orleans: The Final Battle

Scott County, Virginia:

Records & Cemetery

Starnes Bend & Bluff

Rafting & Boating on the Clinch

NORTH CAROLINA BRANCH OF STARNES, by Herman Starnes, Monroe, N.C.:

The Piedmont Area of North Carolina

David Starnes (1758-1833) and Barbara Starnes

Joseph Starnes (1787-1850) and Catherine Thompson Starnes

Barbara (1810=1904) and Valentine Starnes

Mahalia (1818-1908) and John W. Ghent

David A. Starnes (1821-1891) and Mary M. Starnes

Caswell Starnes (1825-1918) and Harriett M. Starnes

John E. Starnes (1828-1914) and Margaret M. Starnes

Zachariah Starnes (1829-1868) and Margaret Starnes

Valentine Starnes (1792-1880) and Elizabeth Richardson Starnes (Should

be of Joseph's Generation?)

Joseph Benson Starnes (1825-1891) and Sarah M. Starnes II; Margaret

Melissa C. Starnes

Valentine Starnes, Jr. (1830-1908) and Lacy Caroline Starnes

Margaret Starnes (1832-1894) and John E. Starnes

Talitha Starnes (1837-188?) and Allen Richardson

Elizabeth "Betty" Starnes (1839-1904), and Wilson Broom

John Starnes (1795-1873) and Sarah "Sallie" Richardson Starnes

Mary "Polly" Starnes (1797-1873) and Thomas Richardson

Moses Starnes (1801-1842) and Mary Richardson Starnes

Nathaniel Starnes (1784-1860) and Susan Bost Starnes

Frederick Starnes III (1765-1816) and Mary Fisher Starnes

Charles Starnes (1796-1875) and 1) Elizabeth Thompson; 2) Margaret

Starnes

Other North Carolina Records

	KENTUCKY BRANCH OF STARNES/STARNS, by H. Gerald Starnes & Herman

Starnes From Records Principally Researched and Compiled by H. Thomas

Starns,

Lexington, KY.

Starnes Settlements on the Kentucky Frontier:

Land Entries, Surveys and Deeds

Frontiersman Jacob Starns (1750-1812)

Pulaski County, Conrad Starns (1791-1842)

Adam Starnes II (1765-1834) and Susannah Meek Starnes

John Starnes (ca. 1775-1836) and Mary Haggard Starns

Thomas Starnes (1789-186?) and Mary Susan Starns

Joseph Starnes (1773-1859) and Descendants

	LOUISIANA & TENNESSEE BRANCHES OF STARNES/STARNS, by H. Gerald

Starnes and Herman Starnes.

Kentucky To Louisiana:

One the Tickfaw River

Starns Bridge and Post Office

Jacob and Elizabeth South Starns Family

Tennessee Starnes:

Greene Gounty

Grainger County

Washington County

Hawkins County

Sumner and Other Counties

APPENDICES: Direct Immigration and English Lineage, by H. Gerald Starnes.

Probability of Direct Immigration to the Southern Colonies or Pennsylvania:

The Carolinas

Pennsylvania

The English Lineage:

New England Stearns

Settlement in the Carolinas

Means of Differentiation; German or English Descent

ADDITIONAL EARLY FAMILY RECORDS, by Herman Starnes:

Thomas (1781-1833) & Mary Elizabeth Bruner Starnes (1787-1871

Anna Starnes (1766-1819) & John Boon Family

George W. Starnes Family, 1807-1977

Ephraim Starnes Family, 1822-1980

Then follows three pages of listed illustrations.