• January 1800

• July 1800

James Roddy

An inventory of the estate of James Roddy deceased was returned to Court by the Administrators to wit

7 Notes of hand payable in corn amount 131 bushels; 3 notes of hand for cash amounting to 37 dollars 75 cents; 5 head of horses, 8 head of cattle; 3 head of hogs, 2 Rifle guns; 1 silver watch; 1 sett of Plough Irons; 1 falling ax; 1 foot adj; 1 small auger; 2 chissels; 1 wooden wheel carriage; 10 lb Iron; 1 Saddle & saddle bags; 4 crocks; 2 tea kettles; __ gallon, 9 del__ plates; 3 pewter plates; 3 tin cups; 2 pots; 1 dutch oven; 1 dr_per, fire bell_; 1 pr. shoe leathers; 1 bed & bed stead; 2 Jackett patterns; sundrie cloathing. 2 smoothing Irons, 2 cedar piggins. One 1/2 pint bottle; some shoemakers tools; 1 spinning wheel; 2 kegs; 2 chairs.  

BOOK ACCOUNTS: William Gilliam $1.50.  John Heron  sin (Harrison?) $1.66.  John Wood (Maryville) $1.32.  John Singleton 33 cents.  Nathaniel Hays, balance 88 cents;  Michael Foster 62_ cents; Thomas Anderson, 70 cents.  John Rhea 79 cents;  John Litster $1.21;  Samuel Lindsey $2.60;  Thomas Hamilton $1.62_;  John Hankins 20 cents  James Mitchell (Blue) $1.87 1/2;  William Tipton 25 cents;  Andrew Richey 13 cents;  John Millar (Butcher) $1.25;  James Rodgers Jun. 73 cents;  David Clark $3.06:  Note:  There are some notes or bonds in the hands of Dennis Thomey the amount not known.

Ordered that the said estate be sold as the Law directs.

Source:  Page 77 of Knox County, TN Estate Settlements, Reel # 1
(Volume 1, July 1792 - October 1811)

 
Notes:  

1. From the January 1800 court record, the administrators mentioned here would have been Daniel Haston and Elizabeth Roddy.

2. We have not found any evidence (land deeds or tax records) indicating that this James Roddy owned land.  Perhaps he rented land from John Wood of Maryville, TN...as did Daniel Haston (as per the "timothy lot" court case record).

3. James Roddy had book accounts, but it isn’t clear if this is what he owed or what people owed him.  Most likely, these are amounts owed to other people, such as John Miller, a butcher in Knoxville, and John Wood, a land owner in Maryville.

4. Some of the people of interest on this list:

• John Wood of Maryville:  The “timothy lot” that Daniel & Joseph Haston’s hogs trampled was supposedly leased or subleased from a John Wood.  "South of the Holston, opposite Knoxville" (where the "timothy lot" was) would have been toward Maryville.  William Tipton, who put up security money for this estate settlement, was known to have lived down in the south Knox County area, toward Maryville.

• Nathaniel Hays:  David Haston cut the tails off of cows owned by Nathaniel Hays, who apparently lived near the Daniel Haston and the Phillip Roddy families.

• William Tipton:  (probably "Fighting Billy" Tipton)

• Jane Roddy (some people have suggested that she may have been a sister of Margaret Roddy; others think that she was perhaps a cousin) married an Abraham Tipton on April 29, 1806.

• William Tipton was also involved in the settlement of James Roddy’s estate, in that he put up bond money for the settlement process.

• Abraham Tipton, in an 1815 final settlement of a James Roddy estate, was the administrator of the estate.  (Daniel Haston had moved on to White County, TN ten years or so prior to this time.)  This may have been a different James Roddy.

• James Mitchell:  Was this James Mitchell the brother of Jacob Mitchell who (apparently) married Lucinda Haston, daughter of Daniel Haston?  What does the word "Blue" mean here?  James Mitchell (later, a Reverend) married Sarah (Sallie) Nave who was born in Rockingham County, VA.  She was the daughter of George Nave and Veronica Fanny Moore, but she was born in 1793 so she would have only been seven years old in 1800.  James was born on October 29, 1786, so he would have only been 14 years old in 1800.*
  *Source for birth date of James Mitchell: Page 51 of The "720" Descendents of Morris and Elizabeth Mitchell by Van Hines Mitchell (Published by Jean S. Mitchell of LaFeria, TX in 1998).

• Dennis Thomey:  Phillip Roddy (and James Ryon) lived adjacent to Dennis Towney (Towmey?) in Guilford County, NC.  On February 15, 1791 Phillip Roddy sold land to Dennis Towmey.  On August 7, 1798 Phillip Roddy gave or sold 100 acres in Guilford County, NC to James Roddy and the transaction was witnessed by Moses Roddy.  The 100 acres was adjacent to Dennis Towmey.  At the time of the 1798 transaction from Phillip to Moses Roddy, they were both living in Knox County, TN.  In November of 1802, Daniel Haston's son Joseph traveled to Guilford County, NC to settle some James Roddy estate business with Dennis Towmey. 
  
  Note:  If you have major interest in this issue - be sure and read the page on this site - North Carolina Connections to the Daniel Haston Family.