Florida Family Group Sheet for Joseph WEST Family *********************************************** Copyright © by the submitter All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** SUBMITTED BY: Mary West Rumora e-mail: marywest@satx.rr.com ================================================ HUSBAND: Joseph WEST date and place of birth: ca 1742 Frederick County, Maryland date and place of marriage: 1765 Maryland other marriages: n/a military service: American Revolution - Patriot soldier in Fifth Co., Middle Battalion, Montgomery County, MD. date and place of death: bet. 1820-1830 Spartanburg County, South Carolina father: John WEST, Sr. b. 1701 "Blackburn," Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Maryland mother: Frances ANDERSON (aka Frances OSBORNE) b. 1710 Frederick County, Maryland ........................................................................... WIFE: Mary OFFUTT date and place of birth: May 24, 1746 Prince George's County, Maryland other marriages: n/a date and place of marriage: 1765 Maryland date and place of death: bet. 1810-1820 Spartanburg County, South Carolina mother's father: Samuel OFFUTT b. April 19, 1712 Potomac, Prince George's County, Maryland mother's mother: Elizabeth BURGESS b. November 15, 1714 Prince George's County, Maryland ........................................................................... CHILD 1: Kinsey WEST date and place of birth: ca 1768 Frederick County, Maryland married: Never Married; d.s.p. date and place of death: 1834 Spartanburg District, South Carolina ........................................................................... CHILD 2: Elisha W. WEST date and place of birth: 1771 Frederick County, Maryland married: Never Married; d.s.p. date and place of death: October 1850 Roswell District, Cobb County, Georgia ........................................................................... CHILD 3: Burgess P. WEST date and place of birth: ca 1773 Frederick County, Maryland married: Never Married; d.s.p. date and place of death: after June 26, 1846 ........................................................................... CHILD 4: Walter WEST date and place of birth: ca 1774 Frederick County, Maryland married: Nancy LIGON date and place of marriage: ca 1800 Spartanburg County, South Carolina date and place of death: 1819 Giles County, Tennessee ........................................................................... CHILD 5: Cassandra WEST date and place of birth: ca 1776 Frederick County, Maryland married: Robert FERGUSON date and place of marriage: 1817 Spartanburg County, South Carolina date and place of death: after 1834 ........................................................................... CHILD 6: Elizabeth WEST date and place of birth: 1778 married: George SALMON (aka George SALMOND and George SAMMONS) date and place of marriage: 1804 Spartanburg County, South Carolina date and place of death: Bef. November 19, 1834 ........................................................................... CHILD 7: Anna WEST date and place of birth: ca 1779 married: Benjamin NICHOLS date and place of marriage: ca 1800 Spartanburg District, South Carolina date and place of death: bef. 1836 ........................................................................... CHILD 8: Thomas Joseph WEST date and place of birth: February 12, 1783 married: Mary Minerva PORTER (aka Polly PORTER) date and place of marriage: November 16, 1828 South Carolina other marriages: Yes, first wife's name unknown. date and place of death: March 28, 1856 Spartanburg County, South Carolina ........................................................................... CHILD 9: John WEST date and place of birth: 1785 married: Margaret Irena PORTER (aka Rena Porter) date and place of marriage: 1830 South Carolina other marriages: Jinsey WINGO m. ca 1818 Spartanburg County, South Carolina date and place of death: after 1860 Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia ........................................................................... CHILD 10: Nancy WEST date and place of birth: 1788 South Carolina married: Never Married; d.s.p. date and place of death: after November 1834 ........................................................................... CHILD 11: Stephen WEST date and place of birth: 1790 Union County, South Carolina married: Jane Mira PORTER (aka Elmira Jane Porter) date and place of marriage: ca 1830 other marriages: unknown date and place of death: bet 1850 - 1860 South Carolina ........................................................................... SOURCES: WEST Family Bible 1858 - Inscribed and signed by Mrs. Jane M. WEST wife of Stephen WEST Will of John WEST dated Oct. 13, 1765, proved June 13, 1766 in Frederick Co., MD Offutt Family Books by Nelle Thorton OFFUTT. Sarasota, Florida 1978. Cemetery Records of Atlanta and Vicinity 1822-1933 by Franklin M. Garrett - Atlanta Historical Society. 1850 & 1860 Federal Census Cobb County Georgia. 1880 Federal Census Fulton County Georgia. 1790-1880 Federal Census S. C. Counties: District Ninety Six, Spartanburg, Union, Greenville Military Records - CSA Georgia Military Records - Civil War Widow's Application for Pension State of Georgia Death Certificates -Dekalb County; Fulton County; Cobb County Andrea Report on the WEST Family by Leonardo Andrea. 1948. West Family Register by Letta Brock STONE. 1928. "WEST Genealogy Research, 1550-1950," unpublished research notes of Letta Brock STONE. Some South Carolina County Records - Vol. 2. Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr. Editor. South Carolina Baptists, 1670-1805 by Leah Townsend. Union County S. C. Deed Books 1716-1783 Colony of South Carolina records Spartanburg District South Carolina Deed Abstracts Books U-W (1827-1839), compiled by Larry Vehorn. 1820 Federal Census Maury County Tennessee Spartanburg County South Carolina Will Abstracts 1787-1840. Compiled by Brent H. Holcomb. Spartanburg County/District South Carolina - Deed Abstracts by Albert Bruce Pruitt. DAR file numbers: 145999, 49859 Spartanburg County, SC - Wills (copy on file) Spartanburg County, S. C. Cemetery Survey, Volume 2. Compiled by Pinckney Chapter of SCGS. 1993. "Carolina Spartan," 1882 Obituaries . ........................................................................... NOTES: The Will of Kinsey WEST provides the best recorded evidence of the children of Joseph and Mary OFFUTT WEST. Kinsey WEST, son of Joseph and Mary OFFUTT WEST, wrote his Will on November 19, 1834 and died soon thereafter. He died unmarried and left his estate to his brothers and sisters. Named in the estate records are: Elisha WEST, Burgys P. WEST, R. Ferguson and wife Cassandra (WEST) and heirs, Nancy WEST, Stephen WEST, Thomas WEST, John WEST, Walter WEST and heirs, George SAMMONS and heirs (whose wife was Elizabeth WEST), and Anna NICHOLS and heirs. MWR 02/24/02 ===============================================================