Person:William Collier (23)

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96. William COLYER Sr.186,187,188 was born about 1754 in possibly Fauquier County, Virginia.37,189 He died in 1819 in Washington County, Tennessee.37 North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee: Washington County, Tennessee 1790: 882. William Colyer; 903. William Colyer; 965. William Colyer

William Colyer of Greenbriar County, Virginia was living in Montgomery County, Virginia in the neighborhood of Roanoke, married a woman named St.Clair and had several sons, among them John Colyer. Some of these sons of William Colyer were killed by Indians on the frontier of Virginia and in Kentucky. From a letter from Dr. Welby Colyer (a son of St.Clair Colyer) of Garrett, Ill., 1937, who died in 1940; Delia Colyer Powers, his sister, said that Dr. Welby Colyer had two daughters. A letter from Dr. Dr. Welby Colyer was found in a library in Salisbury, N. C. said that a Mrs. Bales in Pennington Gap, Virginia, said that William Colyer married a St.Clair woman and said that it was on file in Abbington. . . Stella Colyer said that she checked and was told that the records don't go back that far. Mrs. Bales said that when Charles Colyer died, that a Mrs. William Colyer was one heir. She also said that St. Clair lived in St.Clair's Bottoms, near Powell Valley, Virginia. William Colyer owned land in Washington County, Tennessee. (Washington County, Tenn., Deeds, Vol. 17, pg. 210, Oct. 18, 1821) John Colyer of Pulaski County, Kentucky to Alexander Colyer of Washington County, Tenn., . ..all of my share in the estate of William Colyer, deed., my father, to the three tracts of land in Washington County, Tennessee,on the south side of the Nolachucky River. -- This must have been John's brother, who stayed in Tennessee. Vol. 19, pg. 38, Washington Co., Deeds, April 9, 1827, . ..John Calvert and his wife Dorcas, (formerly Dorcas Colyer of Copper County, Missouri, convey land from the estate of her father William Colyer, Sr. . late of Washington County, Tenn. John, Alexander, William and Dorcas are children of William Colyer. Stella Colyer

Early tax records show a William Colyer was living on the Nolachucky River in 1790, owned land and was paying a poll. so he was under 50. All free white men at that time between 21and 50 had to pay a white poll." List of taxables for years 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1801 list William Colyer, on the Nolachucky River, in Washington County, Tennessee.

William Colyer was a Justice of the Peace in Washington County, Tenn. in 1821. 1 . Letter from Stella Colyer to Gail Myers, April 23, 1973. 2 From Mrs. Wallace Tilden, Johnson City, Tenn. 3 . Mary H. McCowen, WASHINGTON CO. TENN. RECORDS, vol. 1, 1964

ABOVE INFO FROM GEDCOM OF CREATED BY DEAN HUNTER OF LEXINGTON KY. ______________________________________________________________________ ___ 2 June, 1984William COLYER Sr. and Agnes Ann (Nancy) SINCLAIR were married in Near Roanoke, Montgomery County, Virginia.37,189 A Buford Coliar is shown in the 1810 Pulaski County Census with 1 male under 10, 1 male 16-26, 1 female 16-26.

97. Agnes Ann (Nancy) SINCLAIR was born about 1758 in Orange County, Virginia.37,189 She was the sister of Arthur St. Clair - General & Governor of the Northwest Territory Children were:

i.
Arthur St. Clair COLYER was born about 1780 in probably Washington County, Tennessee.37 

ii.
William COLYER Jr. was born about 1780.37 

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iii.
John COLYER. 

iv.
Dorcas COLYER was born about 1785 in Washington County, Tennessee.37 She died about 1843 in Cooper County, Missouri.37 

v.
Ursula COLYER was born about 1785.37 She died about 1843. 

vi.
Alexander COLYER was born in 1790 in Washington County, Tennessee.37 He died about 1856 in probably Franklin County, Tennessee.37