191. William Salon Meadows [15211] was born about 1760 in Virginia.
General Notes: Excerpt from the Beckley Herald Centennial Edition, August 1950.
"The forefathers of the many Raleigh County Meadows were truly Mountain Men, some of them being west of the Alleghany Mountains ridges for closer to two hundred years than one hundred. The first known to own land in what is now Raleigh County was William Meadows Sr. He signed his name "Meddows, as did the first Jeremiah Meadows living in Raleigh, according to the clerk of early Greenbrier County in 1796 and Giles County, Virginia in 1818. This is noted as to not confuse these Meadows with a Jeremiah Meadows or Meador who came to this region in 1832.
William Meddows Sr. was deeded land in the amount of 150 acres below the mouth of Madam's Creek on 28 April 1818 from the survey of June 1795 and again in 1815, which was granted Alexander Stuart and Archibald Stuart. This land contained half the briery bottom along New River and was bordered on the survey line of the corner of Peter Davis, who married Susanna Meadows January 7, 1799 in Greenbrier County.
William Sr. and Sarah, his wife, of Giles County, deeded this land to John Meadows and Elizabeth in about 1826, and they in turn deed the land to Jeremiah by 1836. Here he lived with his wife, Nancy Roach until 1843 when he died."
William married Sarah Davis [15269] [MRIN: 5041] about 1780. Sarah was born about 1761.
• Source:1. Marilyn Ford and Damon Floyd.
Children from this marriage were:
320 F i. Anna Meadows [15568]. Anna married Jeptha Massey [15638] [MRIN: 5190] on 21 Feb 1806 in Monroe County, West Virginia.
321 M ii. Arris Meadows [15572] . General Notes: Also spelled Aries Meadows.
ARIES MEADOWS
Now isn't this interesting? Peter Davis, who married Susannah Meadows in 1799, assigned a Land Office Treasury Warrant to Aries Meadows. Aries used the warrant to secure 50 acres of land on two runs of the Greenbrier River in 1801. A transcript of the land grant follows my signature line.
So far as I know, this is the first direct tie that has been discovered between Aries and a member of the family of Francis Meadows I. This fits well with our assumption that Aries and Susannah were brother and sister.
Curt Systma
1801 LAND GRANT. "Aries Meadows, 50 acres, Greenbrier County.
James Monroe Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of an exchanged Land Office Treasury Warrant Number three hundred and eighty nine issued the sixth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, There is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto Aries Medows assignee of Peter Davis a Certain tract or parcel of Land containing fifty acres by survey bearing date the twentieth day of September one thousand Seven hundred & ninety eight lying and being in the County of Greenbrier on the waters of Kishinger Run and the waters of little Stoney Creek both Branches of Greenbrier River and bounded as followeth "to wit" Beginning at a black oak and white oak corner to Meadows on Bank's line and leaving both north fifty degrees east forty eight poles to a white oak South eighty degrees east forty six poles to a black oak and dogwood north forty five degrees east fifty poles to two spanish oaks Sounty seventy degrees east one hundred poles to two white oaks South fifteen degrees east thirty one poles to a white oak corner to Meadows and thence with his line north eighty nine degrees West two hundred and eighteen poles to the Beginning with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel or land with its appurtenances to the said Aries Meadows and his heirs forever. In Witness Whereof the said James Monroe esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hat hereunto Set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the eighteenth day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and one and of the Commonwealth the Twenty Sixth -- /s/ James Monroe." SOURCE: Virginia Land Grants, Book 48, at Pages 268-269, downloaded from the Library of Virginia's Digital Library on September 20, 1999 and transcribed by Curt L. Sytsma.
322 M iii. Edward Meadows [15570] .
323 M iv. Elijah Meadows [15566] .
324 M v. Isaac Meadows [15575] . General Notes: Isaac Meadows lived on the New River at the William C. Richmond farm. He and brother in law, Peter Davis, owned that body of land on which the Richmond Farm was located, originally known as the Briery Bottom. Isaac was the great great grandfather of Governor Clarence Meadows of West Virginia.
325 M vi. Jesse Meadows [15571] . Jesse married Charlotte Sawyer [15639] [MRIN: 5191] on 17 Dec 1817 in Monroe County, West Virginia.
326 F vii. Sarah Meadows [15569] .
+ 327 F viii. Susannah Meadows [24445] was born in 1781.
328 M ix. George Meadows [15573] was born in 1782. George married Hannah Willis [15574] [MRIN: 5167].
+ 329 F x. Mary E. Meadows [21921] was born in 1794 and died on 18 Aug 1862 at age 68.
330 M xi. John Meadows [15579] was born in 1810.
+ 331 M xii. William S. Meadows [15033] was born in 1823.
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