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Darby Callahan
1717 - 1787 (70 years)
Has 8 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
1730 - 1811 (81 years)-
Name Darby Callahan Birth 1717 Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia 
Gender Male Death 29 Mar 1787 Rockingham, North Carolina Patriarch & Matriarch 
Darby Callahan, b. 1655, Irelandd. 1687, Lancaster, Virginia (Age 32 years) (Grandfather) 
Mary Stott, b. 1689, Lancaster, Virginiad. 1741, Lancaster, Virginia (Age 52 years) (Mother) Person ID I139012 FeldmanTree Last Modified 11 Feb 2012
Father John Callahan, b. 1682, Lancaster, Virginia d. 1741, Lancaster, Virginia (Age 59 years) Mother Mary Stott, b. 1689, Lancaster, Virginia d. 1741, Lancaster, Virginia (Age 52 years) Marriage 1706 Lancaster, Virginia Family ID F34624 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Unity Harris, b. 1730, Cherokee, Rockingham, North Carolina d. 1811, Rockingham, North Carolina (Age 81 years) Children + 1. Edward Callahan, b. 1743, Virginia d. 1823, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 80 years)▻ Mahala Susannah Brock m. 1767Family ID F34623 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Sep 2010
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Notes - North Carolina State Archives. Rockingham County Clerk Superior Court Record of Wills Years 1785 -1804 pages 1-280 filmed 4-5-1965. Page 79 Darby Callahan Will. NOTE: Due to missing sections of the Will it is not complete. But is readab le.
"I Darby Callahan of the County of .... .. State of No Carolina. Being of ... of Memory thanks be so.. that it is appointed for all M.. to Die do make of ordain..... Last will and Testament, that is to say recommend my Soul into the hands of Go d, who gave it and for my... recommend it to .. to be Buried at the Discretion of the Executors, and as for my ... Estate wherewith is hath pleased God .....me, with and give and Bequeath in manner and form following ... I give and Bequeath unt o my beloved Wife Unity Callahan ..............live upon with all Moveables and utensils ........................Natural Life or widowhood and after her decease to Be ... ... Edward Callahan Items, I Give and ......... Ezeke Callahan Two Hundr ed Acres of Land............. unto my son Nathl Callahan Two...................................................... I give and bequeath unto my wife a Negroe ...called "Toby", and an small Negroe Girl called "na..dam" during her .... Then smal l Negroe Girl t.........ld and her Emerease and ... of my sons only .... Natural Life or Widowhood and after , her decease to sold and divided equally amongst my Sons and Daughters it is my request that Nathl Harris and Ezekiel Callahan ma y be my Executors of this my Last will and Testament, in witness .. unto I have first my Hand and ... this 29th Day March 1787.
Witness
James Fitzgerald Darby Callahan (Sealed)
Ezeke Callahan
Nancy Parish
1730 Maryland Archives 1658-1783,The Lower House of Assembly page 114 Assembly Proceedings, May 21- June 16, 1730
Do 1730 Darby Callahan Do
1741 Mentioned in 1741 Poll of Election Co. of Prince William.
(I question the above data to wonder if it belongs to this Darby Callahan. There was a record of a Darby Callahan in Maryland, in the marriage records St, Ann Parish. Vol. 1 as followed, CalahanDarby 29 Jan. 1719/20 Mary Packett, widow)
Notes for DARBY CALLAHAN:
Researchers of the family of Darby Callahan state that he was born in Halifax Co. VA, cir 1717.
1762
Name: Darby Callihan
Year: 1762
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 6264
Primary Immigrant: Callihan, Darby
Annotation: Names mostly of Irish origin, 1628-1878. Also in nos. 6276 and 6280, O'Brien's The Irish in America, pp. 48-53 and Irish Settlers in America, pp. 163-168.
Source Bibliography: O'BRIEN, MICHAEL J. "Grantees of Land in the Colony and State of Virginia, Copied from the County Records of Virginia." In The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, vol. 13 (1913-1914), pp. 214-219.
Page: 218
1762 Darby Callihan 400 A, Halifax VA (400 acres taxed in 1762 in Halifax, VA.)
07-21-1763 - Halifax County , Virginia Deed Books
Darby Calahan of Orange Co., North Carolina to Ralph Shelton of Amelia Co., for 20, 400 acres of both sides of the south fork of Mayo River, granted sd Darby Calahan 25 July 1762.. All appurtenances thereunto belonging. .
Signed Darby Calahan
Unity , wife of Darby , relinquished her right of dower. no wit. Recorded 21July 1763
In 1765, a Rowan Co. NC marriage bond lists Darby Callahan, John Callahan and John Duncan as witnesses to the marriage of Marshall Duncan, Jr. and Densten Rogers.
Database: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
Groom: Marshall Duncan, Jr
Bride: Bety Densten Rogers
Bond Date: 02 Apr 1765
Bond #: 000124286
Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
ImageNum: 006876
County: Rowan
Record #: 01 103
Bondsman: Maxwell Duncan
Witness: John Duncan; John Callahan & Darby Callahan, Wit)
In 1770, Darby Callahan received a land grant in Old Rowan Co. NC on the north side of the Dan River at Matrimony Creek in what is, today, Rockingham Co. NC.
1772 - Mention in JOSEPH TATE of the County of Guilford in the Province of North Carolina...3 March 1772
Oct. 22, 1782 Rockingham Co, NC Land Deed E:256 State of N.C. to James Fitzjarrel 373 A on Buffalo Island Cr adj. Henry Scales, James Strong, Daniel Wilson, Darby Calahanm. Oct. 22, 1782 ( No fee or Rev. service mentioned.)
In 1784, Darby Callahan and John Stagner (probably the son of John Barney Stagner) signed a petition calling for the creation of Rockingham Co. from Rowan Co.
March 4, 1786 Rockingham County, NC Witness to a Land Deed in Deed book A:241 (James Wakins Jr. )
March 10, 1786 Rockingham County, NC Witness to a Land Deed in Deed book B:6 (James Wakins Jr. )
March 27 1787 Darby Callahan left a will in Rockingham Co. NC dated 1787, but its condition prevented most of its contents from being legible. (see translated copy of org from the NC state Archives.)
Sept. 17 1790 Grant #77 issed 17 Sep1790 entry #62. Said grant issued 17 Jun 1789 in book 76 page
197 includes a handwritten surveyors description of the property as
conveyance. Witness Ezekial Callahan et al.
Nov. 17, 1790 Rockingham County, NC Deed Book C:132 States the following ( State of N.C. to Darby Calahan 53 3/4 A on S side Martrimony Cr. adj sd Callahan, Joshua Hopper. )(Land Grant #80 Rockingham Co., VA for 53 3/4 acres of land on Matrimon y Creek (both sides)
As of this writing there has been no connection established between the Darby Callahan line and John Callahan line. [The family information printed here was provided by Beth Watkins, a descendant of Darby Callahan and a researcher of this line. ] Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/l/Ben-F-Callahan/BOOK-0001/0007-0001.html#IND21524REF2
Some children migrated to Clay Co., KY and to Hawkins Co.,
Tenn.
North Carolina State Archives. Rockingham County Clerk Superior Court Record of Wills Years 1785 -1804 pages 1-280 filmed 4-5-1965. Page 79 Darby Callahan Will. NOTE: Due to missing sections of the Will it is not complete. But is readab le.
"I Darby Callahan of the County of .... .. State of No Carolina. Being of ... of Memory thanks be so.. that it is appointed for all M.. to Die do make of ordain..... Last will and Testament, that is to say recommend my Soul into the hands of Go d, who gave it and for my... recommend it to .. to be Buried at the Discretion of the Executors, and as for my ... Estate wherewith is hath pleased God .....me, with and give and Bequeath in manner and form following ... I give and Bequeath unt o my beloved Wife Unity Callahan ..............live upon with all Moveables and utensils ........................Natural Life or widowhood and after her decease to Be ... ... Edward Callahan Items, I Give and ......... Ezeke Callahan Two Hundr ed Acres of Land............. unto my son Nathl Callahan Two...................................................... I give and bequeath unto my wife a Negroe ...called "Toby", and an small Negroe Girl called "na..dam" during her .... Then smal l Negroe Girl t.........ld and her Emerease and ... of my sons only .... Natural Life or Widowhood and after , her decease to sold and divided equally amongst my Sons and Daughters it is my request that Nathl Harris and Ezekiel Callahan ma y be my Executors of this my Last will and Testament, in witness .. unto I have first my Hand and ... this 29th Day March 1787.
Witness:
James Fitzgerald Ezeke Callahan
Nancy Parish
The following is an unrecorded will found in a box of old wills in Rockingham County Courthouse in 1957! The first page is damaged; the other pages are quite legible and the spelling almost perfert. It could have been written by the devisor.
JOSEPH TATE of the County of Guilford in the Province of North Carolina...3 March 1772--Prb Guilford County May Term 1772
Wife Elly-all that part of the tract I now live on above a south line made from Dan River, negro man named Ned, negro woman (torn), negro woman named Hannah...(torn)... Philadelphia mare, side sad..(torn)..set of plow irons and giers
Dau...*torn)...Perkins-negro woman named ...(torn)
GR son Alexander Joyce-40 pounds currency in small yearly payments as shall be reguired for clothing and schooling
Dau Frances Ralston-negro man Tom
Dau Elizabeth Robertson-negro man named Bob, all that tract of land on both side Rock House Cr adj Charles Mitchell, two bonds for 10 pounds each on James & William Cotten
Dau Margaret Joyce--350 ac in the fork of the Mayo and Dan Rivers where she now lives, use of a negro girl Aggie
Son Adam--land on west side of Dan River, & the adj tract of 350 acon both sides of the river, negro man Dickey, negro woman Jinny, strawberry roan gelding, set of plow irons and giers
Son John-300ac tract on east side of Dan River called Mulberry Island, 700 ac adj the same, negro boy Tinker alias Ned; boy named Peter, man named Will--the same in dispute between Valentine Allen and myself and you are to defend this propert y t the cost of my estate; bay stallion named Spedillah, gray gelding called Collins, pair of plow irons
Son Joseph-1000ac where I live, negro named Bill, boy named Charles, black gelding with a blaze face colt called English colt, plow irons & giers, saddle and bridle, wagon & giers
Dau Sarah Tate-tract on the Great Cr of the waters of the Dan on west siae in Surry Co, negro woman Nan, young boldegle mare, side saddle& bridle, two cows & calves
Dau Rachel Tate--tract on Peters Crof the waters of the Dan on east side in Surry Co, negro child Humphrey, three year old colt, side saddle & bridle, two cows & calves
Daus Sarah & Rachel-tract on east side of Dan River adj the land William Campbell bough of me
To Exprs-490 ac tract on east side of Dan River called Lad's old place to be sold for paying debts; also bonds on Darby Callahan, Jr; William Campbell, James Presnall, Sr
Ch: Adam, John, Joseph, Sarah & Rachel-residue after debts
Exrs: Sons Adam, John & Joseph Tate
Trustees: Alexander Martin, Philemon Deatherage
Wit: Alexander Martin, Robert Rallston, Samuel Hunter, Constant Perkins, Phil. Deathrerdge
NOTE! Thomas Henderson was the first Clerk of Court in Guilford County; then became the first Clerk of Court of Rockingham County when it wass formed from Guilford 29 Dec. 1785, with the first Court held in Feb. of 1786 in the home of Adam Tate.
Some records show Joseph Tate's sons Joseph and John had died before 1785 (apparently inestate and without issue), perhaps one can theorize that the estate was not settled in 1785 and that Thomas Henderson brought the will to Rockingham County. Mo st of the land involved is in Rockingham County, some being in Stokes County which had not been formed from Surry when the will was written.
More About DARBY CALLAHAN:
Will: 27 Mar 1787, Rockingham County, North Carolina
Notes for UNITY HARRIS:
Nov. 29, 1794 Rockingham County, NC Land Deed . Deed book D:231
Ezekiel Callahan , Edward Callahan , Nathaniel Callahan, Jane Calahan, Darby Hopper, Jones Parrish and Unity Callahan to Robert Gilmore for 26 pds Va money 53 1/4 A on S side Martrimony Cr. adj. John Hopper. Nov. 29, 1794. John Gibso n, Philip Rose, Jesse Harris.
Unity "Montie" Harris
Notes for UNITY HARRIS:
In the 1810 census Unity Callahan was recorded in Rockingham Co. NC.
Her houshold contained the following - 1m-26/45, 1f-16/26 & 1f>45.
- North Carolina State Archives. Rockingham County Clerk Superior Court Record of Wills Years 1785 -1804 pages 1-280 filmed 4-5-1965. Page 79 Darby Callahan Will. NOTE: Due to missing sections of the Will it is not complete. But is readab le.
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