Redding STOKES & Ms. __?_

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Redding STOKES
Ms. __?__

Husband: Reading / Redding / Redden STOKES
Birth: 1755-65
Death: 1830s, AR

Marriage:

Wife: Ms. __?__
Birth: 1765-74 (closer to 1765)

Children:

— born in NC:
1. Zilpha STOKES, b. ca. 1785
2. (Daughter A) STOKES, b. 1790-1800
3. (Daughter B) STOKES, b. 1790-1800
4. (Daughter C) STOKES, b. 1790-1800
5. George W. STOKES, b. 1798/9

— born in NC or KY:
6. (Daughter D) STOKES, b. 1800-1810
7. (Daughter E) STOKES, b. 1800-1810
8. (Daughter F) STOKES, b. 1800-1810

— born in Henderson Co., KY:
9. Holloway STOKES, b. 1806/7
10. Ervin / Erwin / Irvin / Irwin STOKES, b. 1808/9
11. Reading / Redden STOKES, Jr.
12. Samuel STOKES

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Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790 (Broderbund CD-311):

1790 Stokes, Rading NC Duplin Co. p. 191 02-00-02-00-00

These data indicate:

Gender and Type Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 free white males 16 or over in or bef. 1774 = Redding
= ?

2 free white females all ages in or bef. 1790 = Wife
= Zilpha (b. ca. 1785)

He is the only STOKES in Duplin Co.

3a. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800 (Broderbund CD-312). Please see my WARNING regarding use of this database (the numerical data have the genders switched).

1800 Stokes, Reading NC Pitt Co. p. 266 32010-1001000

3b. 1800 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #43 of 72; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1800 NC Pitt Co. p. 266/563 Ln. 14 Reading Stokes 10010-32010-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 male 9 or under 1790-1800 = George (b. 1798/9)

1 male 26-44 1755-1774 = Redding

3 females 9 or under 1790-1800 = Daughter C
= Daughter B
= Daughter A

2 females 10-15 1784-1790 = Zilpha (b. ca. 1785)
= ?

1 female 26-44 1755-1774 = Wife

4a. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1810 (Broderbund CD-313). Please see my WARNING regarding use of this database (the numerical data have the genders switched). In addition to the gender-switching, there has been a "frame shift" in the data.

1810 Stokes, Reding KY Henderson Co. p. 334 13101-2100_00

4b. 1790-1870 Census Index (online at Ancestry.com). Their database has the genders correct, but has the same "frame shift" (i.e., if you move all the digits to the right of the gap back to the left one digit and add a zero to the end of the string, the data become correct).

1810 STOKES REDING KY Henderson Co. p. 334 2100_-13101-00

4c. 1810 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #10 of 24; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1810 KY Henderson Co. p. 416 Ln. 3 Reding Stokes 21001-31010-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 9 or under 1800-1810 = Ervin (b. 1808/9)
= Holloway (b. 1806/7)

1 male 10-15 1794-1800 = George (b. 1798/9)

1 male 45 or over in or bef. 1765 = Redding

3 females 9 or under 1800-1810 = Daughter F
= Daughter E
= Daughter D

1 female 10-15 1794-1800 = Daughter C

1 female 26-44 1765-1784 = Wife

5. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1820 (Broderbund CD-314): there was no 1820 census in Arkansas (it was not yet a state); other sources are substituted on this CD.

1828 Stokes, Redding AR Jackson Co.

1829 Tax List Stokes, Reading AR Independence Co. Bluckmoor Twp. p. 5

1829 State Census Stokes, Reding AR Independence Co. Taylorsay Twp. p. 12

6. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1830 (Broderbund CD-315):

1830 Stokes, Redding AR Lafayette Co. p. 95

1830 Stokes, Redding AR Jackson Co. p. 95

1830 Tax List Stokes, Ridden Arkansas Territory Jackson Co. p. 4

1830 Tax List Stokes, Ridden Arkansas Territoy Jackson Co. p. 5

1831 Tax List Stokes, Redding Arkansas Territory Lawrence Co. p. 16

1832 Stokes, Redding AR Jackson Co.

1833 Tax List Stokes, Reding Arkansas Territory Jackson Co. p. 1

1834 Tax List Stokes, Reading Arkansas Territory Jackson Co. p. 1

1835 Tax List Stokes, Redding Arkansas Territory Jackson Co. p. 2

1837 Tax List Stokes, Reding Arkansas Territory Jackson Co. p. 3

1838 Tax List Stokes, Redding Arkansas Territory Jackson Co. p. 9

It's hard to figure exactly what's going on here. Certainly, we begin with at least two Readings, but it appears end with just one. I think we can place Reading Sr.'s death in the early 1830s.

7. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1840 (Broderbund CD-316):

1840 Census Stokes, Redding AR Jackson Co. p. 219

This is undoubtedly Reading Jr.

8. A.B. Willhite. [n.d.] Christian Co., Kentucky, Tax List, 1804-1809. (self-published; available from author at 4396 Coopertown Rd., Russellville, KY 42276, or from the Christian County Genealogical Society, Hopkinsville, KY):

Pg. in
Willhite Year Dist.* Last
Name First
Name A B C D E Acres Watercourse

12 1804 South Stokes Redding 1 - - - 2 400
250
200 In Livingston Co.
L R
L R

65 1805 South Stokes Redding 1 - - - 3 300 In Livingston Co.

- 1806-9 - - - - - - - - - -

Legend for numerical data:
A = White Males 21 or over; B = White Males 16-20; C = Blacks over 16; D = Total Blacks; E = Horses

Abbreviations: L R = Little River

*From 1804 to 1806, the county was divided into just two districts: North and South.

Redding was the only STOKES in 1804-5. There were no STOKES in 1806, then Jones STOKES appears in 1807.

9. Willard Rouse Jillson. 1925. The Kentucky Land Grants. Filson Club Publ., Louisville, KY (online at Ancestry.com; Broderbund CD-650):

Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter IV, Grants South of Green River (1797-1866)

Pg Grantee Acres Book Pg Date County Watercourse

416 Stokes, Redding 200 12 528 10-22-1804 Henderson Highland Cr

10. Anon. 1889. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. Goodspeed Publ., Chicago (online at Ancestry.com). On p. 836, under the heading "Jackson County":

The settlement of the territory now composing Jackson County began some time prior to 1830, the date of its organization, but by whom or just when the first settlement was made can not be definitely stated. The following named persons who composed the first grand jury of the county were, as a matter of course, prominent pioneers here: Nicholas Copeland, Dudley Glass, Jesse Gray, Jacob Haggerton, Michael Haggerton, Silas T. Glass, Samuel Stokes, Joseph Haggerton, Elijah Bartley, Holloway Stokes, John Teague, John Flannery, Jacob Flannery, William Melton, John James, Martin Copeland, Martin Bridgeman and Redding Stokes. Some of these, perhaps, lived in that part of the county since cut off in the formation of Woodruff County...

11. Anon. 1890. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas. Goodspeed Publ., Chicago (online at Ancestry.com). On p. 275, under the heading, "Woodruff County":

In 1827... Redding Stokes and his two sons, George Hatch, and Samuel Taylor were the first settlers on Taylor's Bay, it being named after the latter. Dudley Glass and John Teague settled the O'Neal place, four miles north of Augusta. Teague Lake was named after the latter. In 1835...

The "In 1827..." and "In 1835..." were about unrelated individuals, but are included because they give a time frame for Redding's arrival.

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