Joseph SIERS & Elizabeth McDADE

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Joseph SIERS
Elizabeth McDADE?

QUESTION: How do we know the Joseph SIERS in (West) Virginia is the Joseph SIRES in Indiana?

Husband: Joseph SIERS
Birth said to be: 1760-65, Hampshire Co., VA/WV
Death: 2 May 1816, Jackson Co., IN
Brother? Father?: John SIERS

Marriage?: 3 Jan 1787, Greenbrier Co., VA/WV

Wife?: Elizabeth McDADE

Children:

. William SIRES, b. ca. 1790, VA; d. bef. 1850, IL?
. Joseph SIRES, Jr., b. bef. 1795; m. 29 Dec 1812, Franklin Co., IN, Nelly DORSON
. Alexander SIRES, b. Feb 1796, VA; d. 11 Apr 1869, Henrietta, Richland Co., WI
. George SIRES, b. 1798, VA; d. 15 Aug 1885, Carroll Co., IN
. James SIRES, b. aft. 1800; d. ca. 1825

. Sarah "Sally" SIRES, b. ????; m. William BUSTER
. Elizabeth "Betsey" SIRES, b. ????

Sources:

1. 1781-82 Hampshire County, Virginia [now West Virginia], Personal Property Tax List (online at New River Notes [link died]; transcribed by Jeffrey C. Weaver).

Name Tithes Slaves
above 12 Horses Cattle

Siers, Joseph 1 0 1 0

2. 1796 Greenbrier County, Virginia [now West Virginia], Personal Property Tax List (online at New River Notes[link died]; transcribed by Jeffrey C. Weaver).

Name White
Tithes Blacks
16+ Blacks
12-16 Horses

Siers, Joseph 1 0 0 2

Also on list: John SIERS.

3. Pam Shelton Anderson. Descendants of Joseph Sires (Family Tree Maker User Page). Quoting Anderson who cites:

3a. Greenbrier Co., VA, Marriages, 1782-1890 (LDS FHL Film No. 0249991) and Marriage Book A, Greenbrier Co., VA, 1780, p. 135 (LDS FHL Film No. 0595040):

Probably the Joseph Sawyers who married Elizabeth McDade in Greenbrier co VA on 3 Jan 1787.

3b. Helen S. Stinson. 1988. Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Court Orders, 1780-1850. [Apparently self-published.].

p. 111 30 Mar 1791 Joseph Siers was a deft in a case against James Halstead, and John Siers undertook for the defendant.

3c. Larry Shuck. 1988. Greenbrier County Records: Volume 1.... Iberian Publ. Co., Athens, CA. Quoting Anderson:

This same day [2 June 1791] he [John Siers] was also involved in a case with Joseph Siers against James Holstead.

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