Thomas Vernon, Sr.^[1]

1686 - Abt 1758  (72 years)

• Name	Thomas Vernon
  Suffix	Sr.
  Born	1686	Chester County, PA
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1758	Cub Creek, Lunenburg County, Virginia, USA
  Notes	Thomas Vernon, Sr was disowned by the Quaker Meeting at Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1709 or 1710. Moved in about 1737 or 1738 with his wife and children to Virginia. Eventually settled at Cub Creek, Virginia (It was called Old Brunswick County, then Lunenberg County shortly after they arrived. At some much later date it was named Charlotte Co. Vernon Vignettes, Vol. I, #5, page 27, says that he was granted land in Lunenberg Co., Va., in 1737. Thomas Vernon, Sr. and his family were associated with the Caldwell Settlement in Virginia, a group of Presbyterians. Lunenberg County Tax Records for 1749, page 277, lists a Thomas Vernon. The Thomas Vernon, Sr. of this genealogy would have been about 53 years old at the time. Although his date of death is listed as about 1758, another source lists 1777. The life of Thomas Vernon, Sr. became so connected to Reverend John Caldwell and the Caldwell Settlement that I shall try to set out a chronology below that gives some information about the life of Thomas Vernon, Sr., John Caldwell and his followers, the Caldwell Settlement, and how they fit together. 1686 - Thomas Vernon, Sr. was born to Robert and Elinor Vernon, Quakers who had emigrated from Chester, England with William Penn to escape religious persecution . He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania at his parents farm which was crossed by a creek known as Vernon's Run. 1710 - Thomas Vernon, Sr. was disowned (cast out) by the Chester Quaker Monthly Meeting for "... his vain and evil conversation as that of drinking to excess, loose company keeping, cursing, swearing, and lying." His father, Robert Vernon, gave a large tract of land to his son, Jacob, in 1703, and another large tract of land to his son, John, in 1709/1710. There is no record of Robert giving anything to his son, Thomas, perhaps indicating that Thomas was not in good standing with his father, maybe for many years. 1712 - Records show that Thomas Vernon, Sr. attended the wedding of his brother, Jacob, to Elinor Owen in Pennsylvania. 1727 - In December Reverend John Caldwell, a Presbyterian Minister, and some of his followers from Antrim, Northern Ireland arrived in Delaware. "From thence they got up the country to a place in Pennsylvania called Chestnut Level." During his years in Pennsylvania, John Caldwell explored south to Albemarle County, Virginia and Old Brunswick County, Virginia. 1738 - Reverend John Caldwell met with the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia to seek permission to settle in Virginia. The Synod applied to Governor Gooch of Virginia and received permission from Richmond, the capitol of Virginia, on Nov. 4, 1738. Reverend John Caldwell and his followers purchased 20,000 acres along both sides of Cub Creek, which was then in Old Brunswick County, Virginia. 1739 - Reverend John Caldwell left the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Settlement in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1739 with several families and built a house in Albemarle Co., Virginia some 75 miles north of Cub Creek and the Little Roanoke River in Old Brunswick Co., Virginia. He did travel from time to time down to the new outpost settlement at Cub Creek, and his first son was born there on one of those trips. 1739 - Thomas Vernon, Sr. appears in the Cub Creek Settlement Records in 1739, he was about age 53 at the time. To support the conclusion that The Thomas Vernon at Cub Creek was the same Thomas Vernon that had lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, it must be noted that he named his children with the same names that his brothers, sons of Robert and Elinor, the Pennsylvania Quakers, had named their children. It is logical to conclude that Thomas Vernon, Sr, outcast from the Chester, Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting, and probably disowned by his father, Robert Vernon, took up with the Presbyterians of Chestnut Level, Pennsylvania and moved his family south with them to Cub Creek, Virginia. Chestnut Level is in the next county and only about forty three miles from Nether Providence, or Vernon's Run, the location of where Thomas Vernon, Sr. was born and where his father and brothers lived. Thomas Vernon's family is listed as one of 17 founding families of Cub Creek. 1741 - Reverend John Caldwell moved his family to Cub Creek sometime after March 1st. Other Presbyterian settlers arrived from Pennsylvania and Northern Ireland and joined the Caldwell Settlement at Cub Creek, Virginia. 1745 - Thomas Vernon, Sr. took up 501 acres from the Kennon deed at Cub Creek in the Caldwell Settlement. Lunenburg County was cut out of Old Brunswick County in 1745. The Cub Creek Caldwell Settlement then became part of Lunenburg County. 1749 - The June Court gave a list of tithables for Lunenburg County. Part of the list was made up by one of the Caldwells for the area at Falling River to the Little Roanoke River. Included on that list was Thomas Vernon, Sr. and his three sons, Isaac, James, and Thomas, Jr. 1752 - Another list of tithables was made and contained the same names as for 1749. 1757 - Thomas Vernon, Sr. and his wife, Mary, went to live with their son, Isaac, and his wife, Elizabeth Austin. Thomas Vernon, Sr. was about 71 at the time. Thomas vernon, Sr. deeded their homestead and 370 acres of land to Isaac. In 1757 The will of James Caldwell left one English Shilling to Thomas Vernon, Sr. 1758 - 1777 - It is believed that Thomas Vernon, Sr. may have died in about 1758 at Cub Creek, but another report sets his death in 1777. If he lived until 1777, he would have been about 91 years old.
  Person ID	I088	Complete
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2005

  
  

  Father	Robert Vernon,   b. 1 Jan 1642, Acton Stoke, Middlewich, Cheshire, England ,   d. Dec 1709, Nether Providence, Chester County, Pennsylvania  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Elinor Minshall,   b. 24 Sep 1648, Stoke, Cheshire, England ,   d. Probably Chester County, Pennsylvania
  Married	20 May 1663	Lancaster, England, in home of William Barnes
  Family ID	F038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Brown
  Children	1. Rebecca Vernon,   b. Lunenburg Co., Cub Creek, VA   2. Hannah Vernon,   b. Lunenburg Co., Cub Creek, VA   3. Madeline Vernon,   b. Lunenburg Co., Cub Creek, VA   4. John Vernon   5. Robert Vernon + 6. Richard Vernon,   b. 1711, Probably Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. Abt 1795, Probably, Culpepper Co., Virginia  (Age 84 years)   7. Jonathan Vernon,   b. 1712, Probably Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1802, NC  (Age 90 years) + 8. Thomas Vernon, Jr.,   b. 1713, Probably Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. PROBABLY, Virginia, USA + 9. Isaac Vernon,   b. 1715, Probably Chester County, Pennsylvania + 10. James Vernon,   b. 1716, Lunenburg Co., Virginia (seems unlikely) ,   d. 1803, Abbeyville Co., SC  (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F034	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S-2142191354] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Trees.