Family of John TIMMONS Jr. and Martha ALLAN

Husband:	John TIMMONS Jr. (1767-aft1840)
Wife:	Martha ALLAN (1775- )
Children:	Col. William TIMMONS (1797-1841)

Husband: John TIMMONS Jr.

Name:	John TIMMONS Jr.
Sex:	Male
Father:	John Calvin(?) TIMMONS (1740-1825)
Mother:	Mary (Sarah?) (Polly?) SIMONS (1753- )
Birth	1767	Effingham, SC
Death	aft 1840 (age 72-73)

Wife: Martha ALLAN

Name:	Martha ALLAN
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1775	Charleston, SC

Child 1: Col. William TIMMONS

Name:	Col. William TIMMONS 1
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Sarah Perkins MYERS (1803-1880)
Birth	22 May 1797	Effingham, Florence, SC
Death	6 Jun 1841 (age 44)	Effingham, SC
Occupation		Estate,Mill,Store,PO

Note on Husband: John TIMMONS Jr.

More research is needed to verify Virginia-SC Timmons relationships. We know from yDNA and Audited Accounts, that Abner, Samuel, Thomas, and Moses from Spartanburg, SC are the brothers of our John Timmons on Lynches River. There is also yDNA evidence verifying that a Timmons line in the Md, VA, DL area are related. There is circumstantial evidence that the father of these brothers in the Sgt. John Timmons (abt.1718-1799) of Shenandoah Valley Virginia. However, so far, none of the birth records in the Shenandoah Valley, that I have examined, have confirmed this (actually, I have found no Timmons birth records in any church record for this time period in Shenandoah Valley, but the Timmons stay there is well documented).

 

Also of interest is the record of SC land owned by the "old Mr. Timmings" while John Timmons (abt.1718-1799) was living in VA. These Early records are found in Anson County, NC. On 30 Aug 1753 Curtus Wood titled 300 acres on the south side of the Tyger River "Including an Improvement where old Mr. Timmings now lives Claimed by Stephen Holston beginning at a Maple at the mouth of a Branch on the River Bank Below Thomas Tamons's." (The Tygar River is a tributary of the Broad River.) Timmons/Timmings/Tamons appear to be the same person. In 1774, a chain of title was recorded saying that a resurvey of the border between North and South Carolina had determined that his land was in 96th District, SC. While most of the information is repeated in the chain, Timmings and Tamons were changed to read Timmons and "where old Mr. Timmings now lives" was changed to "where old Mr. Timmons formerly lived." So who is this "old Mr. Timmings"? 1750 is about the time Thomas Timmons was born in Virginia.

 

Additionally, in 1773, a John Timmons purchased 1000 acres of land from Francis Wilson on the Tyger River in South Carolina. 400 acres of land were granted to John and Thomas Timmons on Jack's Branch of the Pacolet River in 1767. Our John Timmons was granted land on Lynches River in 1769 and the Shenandoah Valley John Timmons was fighting in VA 1777-1779. So could the Shenandoah Valley John Timmons have been planning his move to SC and purchased the land on the Tygar River? Or is this "old Mr. Timmings" really the ancestor of the brothers that fought for Francis Marion.

 

Normally, we think of settlers moving up the rivers from the coast to settle SC. But there was a wagon trail along an Indian Trail, based on a Buffalo trail, that started in Philadelphia and came South through the Shenandoah Valley all the way to NC. On their 1775 "Map of the Most settled Parts of Virginia," Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry said about the Great Valley Road "The Great Wagon Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 435 miles." (Planters and Pioneers: Life in Colonial Virginia by Parke, Jr. Rouse). The Yadkin River becomes the Pee Dee River in SC. But there are trails going from the Great Wagon Road leading to upstate SC.

 

1790 Census, Georgetown district, Prince Fredericks Parish page 52, John Timmons 3, 3, 4 - 6

 

? 1790 Census, Beaufort Page 11, Jno Timmons 1 male, 1 female, 13 slaves

 

1800 Census, Marion District, Liberty locality, roll 49, page 456 (Handwritten page 801) John Sr. and John Jr.

Head of Household Free White Males Free White Females O S

M M M M M F F F F F t l

Age 9 15 25 44 Up 9 15 25 44 Up h a

TIMMONS JOHN Senr 0 1 2 0 1 .. 0 0 1 0 1 .. 0 9

TIMMONS JOHN Junr 1 0 0 1 0 .. 0 0 1 0 0 .. 0 1

 

One source lists him as John Calvin TIMMONS III. But there are several places where he is called Jr. during his life.

 

Listed in 1840 census.

Note on Child 1: Col. William TIMMONS

Estate reached from Effingham station to Old Elim Church. The Effingham Post Office was in his store. Series S213190 microfilm Volume 40 at the SC Archives, page 319 has a plat of 2,415 acres on Lynches "Creek", Marion District for Maj. William TIMMONS. Locations are Lynches "Creek", Cockfield Bay, Little Cypress Branch, Oakey Bay, Mill Pond, Flat Bay and Gallington Bay. Another William Timmons had 4,000 acres on the NE side of the Little Pee Dee granted 1791?

 

South-Carolina Temperance Advocate, Issue of July 15, 1841, page 190

Departed this life at his residence, Effingham, Darlington District, on Sunday evening, June 6th, Col. Wm. Timmons. (eulogy)

 

Winyaw Observer June 23, 1841records the death of Colonel William TIMMONS in his 42d year of his age, died the 6th.

 

South-Carolina Temperance Advocate, Issue of November 2, 1843, page 220

Married, on Thursday the 12th ult., by the Rev. James Morris, Doct. W. H. Dinkins, late of Sumterville, to Miss R. A., daughter of Mrs. S. P. Timmons, and Col. Wm. Timmons, deceased, of Effingham.

 

South-Carolina Temperance Advocate, Issue of June 12, 1845, page 237

Married on Tuesday, the 27th ult., by the Rev. John M. Timmons, John Leach Jr., Esq., to Mrs. Sarah P. Timmons, widow of the late Col. William Timmons, of Effingham.

 

HORRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA DEED BOOK C-1 CONVEYANCES 1811-1837, 1849 Abstracted by Catherine H. LewisWillim

57 Abimblick Williams, Sr. to son Abimblick Williams, Junr. $250. 500 acres (upper part of 4,000 acres gr. to William Timmons) NE side of Little Pee Dee River, bd. by Daniel Pipkins, George Skinner, land claimed by Sothern Alford, John Williams, land sold to William Sineath by R. Wm. Timmons. 22 Jan1816. S/ Abimelek Williams. W/ John Manning, Francis Sineath. Aff. John Manning 30 Oct 1817. Recd 30 Oct 1817.

 

303(K168) Elizabeth Williams to William H. Johnston. $100. 400 acres (gr. to Wm. Timmons Feb 1791) NE side Little Pee Dee R., sold by Wm. Timmons to Ahimeleck Williams 15 Dec 1835. S/Elizabeth (x) Williams. W/Wm. J. Ellis, Sam. N. Norman. Recd. 22 Aug 1840

Sources

1	R. Maxcy Foxworth, Jr, "Myers folder at Pee Dee Chapter of SCGS".
	Pee Dee Chapter of SCGS, P.O. Box 1428 Marion, SC 29571-1428.