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James Todd.224. Reverend John Todd
(1) was born between 1725 and 1730.
The following article was taken from the Todd Family File located in the Yadkinville,
North Carolina Public Library on a visit I, Danny A. McBee, made there on August
12, 1998:
Todd Family
The Scotch-Irish occupied the section of Rowan where the best soil is found.
It is reason enough to assume they preceded the German migration by several
years. The Scotch-Irish began arriving in considerable numbers in 1747.
Originated among Maryland families several of which had ben in America for
nearly 100 years. The progenitor of the Todd's settled on the Severn River near
Annapolis in 1651. These four families were represented in the Irish settlement
prior to John Thompson, Joseph Thompson, John Todd, and George Robinson.
John Todd received a land grant in the Irish and Trading Camp Settlement
(1747-1762) which was near the Salisbury Town Land. These grants were numbered,
and his was 64.
John Todd and his wife had three children. They were James, John, and Mary.
When John died he left the homeplace to his daughter Mary. Fifty acres of land
went with the homeplace, which ajoined James property. John Jr. and his wife
Ann Brandon Todd had six children. They were John, James, Thomas Nancy, Elizabeth,
and Mary. Jr. Jr. died at an early age leaving his wife and children. Grandfather
John Sr. left the remainder of the home tract of land to his grandsons, John,
James, and Thomas. They were the only grandchilden mentioned in his will.
This is the first Todd that I can find that settled in this area.
The following is the second article on the Todd family that I found at the Yadkinville,
North Carolina Public Library on my visit there August 12, 1998:
Rev. John Todd a Presbyterian minister of Virginia
After 1740, the Synod of Philadelphia, representing the new side doctrines,
received numerous petitions from many people of North Carolina showing their
desolate condition, in response to which the Synod sent William Robinson to North
Carolina in 1742-1743 and John Thompson in 1744. For the next two decades missionaries
made periodic visits.
Mr. Alexander Craighead's name was enrolled among the members set off for
the formation of the Presbytery of Hanover, as appears from the following extract
from minutes of the Synod of New York for 1755: "A petition was brought
into the Synod setting forth the necessity of erecting a new Presbytery in Virginia,
the Synod therefore appointed the Rev. Samuel Davies, John Todd, Alexander Craighead,
Robert Henry, John Wright, and John Brown, to be a Presbytery under the name
of the Presbytery of Hanover, and that their first meeting shall be in Hanover,
on the first Wednesday of December next, and that Davies open said meeting by
a sermon; and what any of their members settling to the Southward and Westward
of Mr. Hogge's congregation, shall have liberty to join said Presbytery of Hanover.
This information came from the book "Sketches of North Carolina".
According to information given by Freida Todd Pepper of Yadkinville, North Carolina,
"Approximately twenty of the newcomes to the Irish Settlement originated
among Maryland families, several of which had been in America for nearly one
hundred years. The Thompson family was in Dorchester County before 1717 and
inBaltimore County before 1738, while the progenitor of the Todds settled on
the Severn River near Annapolis in 1651 (Information from Christopher Johnso,
"The Todd Family of Anne Arundel County," The Maryland Historical Magazine,
56 vols. (Baltimore: 1906-1961), IX, 298-305; Maryland Calendar of Wills, VIII,
19, 139: Rowan Wills, A, 259). [Copied by me, Danny A. McBee from the Todd Family
File located in the Yadkinville, North Carolina Library].
1759 ROWAN COUNTY TAX LIST
This tax list was found between the walls of the old court house by Wm. D. Kizziah,
Register of Deeds. When found, it was but scraps of paper, but was fitted together
and transcribed by him. This list was made before Rowan Co, NC was divided into
other counties and is the oldest tax list ever found in Rowan (to my knowledge).
It contains no figures and is not typed here as copied. I have put the "a's"
together, the "b's together, etc. When a slave or negro is listed with another's
name, I left those names as they appeared on the typed list. Some names in the
"b's" were torn off or could not be read. They are listed at the end
of this page. There is a copy of this list, as transcribed by Mr. Kizziah, in
the Rowan County Library, Salisbury, NC.
Robt. TATE......Edward TURNER.....George TUREY....Joseph TATE.....Isaac THOMAS.....Jacob
TEATER.....Thos. THORNBOUROUGH.....Walter THORNBOUROUGH.....Robt. THOMPSON.....Thos.
TURNER.....Joseph THORNBOROUGH.....Joseph THORNBOROUGH.....Wm. THORNBOROUGH.....Sam
THORNTON.....Jno TODD, Constable & Nathan TODD.....Thomas TODD.....Roger
TURNER, Jr......John TIDWELL......Edward THORNBROUGH.....
He was married to Ann Brandon.
225. Ann Brandon
(1). Children were:
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