Lineage of Anne Glasson/Glosson/Glawson and the Glisson or Glasson Name
A Hugh Glosson (not Glisson) was one of the sons of a Joseph Glason Glawson--lineage unknown--and a Sarah. Sarah (married name Glawson) was listed as a widow with apparently ten children in Chatham County, North Carolina's 1790 census
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see Rootsweb; or see my transcription of the ancestry image at: DocumentsImages/SarahGlawson_1790ChathamCoNC_census_ancestry.txt; sorry rootsweb no longer provides the volunteer-transcribed census images and other documents).
This same Hugh is listed in various sources (genealogies mainly) as having had sons Clarke Glawson and William Glawson, and since a Clarke Glawson signed with his "X" many documents together with Anne's husband, Richard Malone Whitehead, in Clarke County, Georgia; this Clarke Glawson may indeed be Anne's elder brother! (See winterhawke.com's genealogy [maintained by Bob Whitehead; http://www.winterhawke.com/genealogy/] [now also at Whitehead Genealogy (http://www.whiteheaddna.com/)--the domain change to DNA is Bob's Whitehead's idea; I am not quite such a fan of DNA research, and am not at all sure that all the Whiteheads in a line have the same DNA due to adoption, etc.], especially "Will of William Whitehead," signed by Richard M. Whitehead and Clark Glason [ http://www.whiteheaddna.com/wills/whitehead/wil_whitehead_ws_01.pdf ],for transcriptions and fascimiles early 19th century Whitehead documents made in Clark County, Georgia!)
Clarke Glasson appears nearby the Richard M. and Anne Glasson Whitehead family on the 1850 Clarke County, Georgia census. This is the lineage I am following. The family still needs to be traced to the 1800 census or another census if possible; unfortunately, many counties did not start the census until later.
Some genealogies list Sarah's maiden name as "Clarke" or "Clark;" and as noted above, her son Hugh's eldest son is also generally believed to have been called "Clarke."
A Chatham County court document--shared by Glasson and Clark descendants--lists Hugh Glasson as one of the ten children Sarah had had by 1785, by which point she was a widow. She had gone to court with a Vachel Clark to obtain custody of the children. (Childrens' names on that court document apparently according to Clark descendant Philip Clark [pclark260@hotmail.com] were: Hugh, Wm., James [1], Mary, Samuel, Sarah, John, Joseph, David, James [2], orphans of Joseph Glosson.)
The 1820 Clarke County, Georgia census (Georgia's first census) lists a Henry Glasson, aged about 25 perhaps (clearly too young to be one of Sarah Glawson's children, but perhaps one of the grandchildren), with his family, on page 4, and a slightly older James Glasson, with his family including some older men, on page 3, but no Hugh. However Hugh could have been living with James or someone else, as Anne Glasson/Glosson claims she was born in 1819 in Clarke County; I recall family records saying her parents were Hugh Glosson and Mary ? [Unknown]
Henry was married December 3, 1818, to Nancy Lea/Lee in Clarke County; James was married in 1815 to Jeney Shaw.
Some other descendants of Joseph Glawson (husband of Sarah, father of Hugh, and apparent grandfather of Anne, Richard M. Whitehead's wife) state that he was born in Orange County, NC, and that his name was either James or John.
James Glawson, birth date unknown, or Orange County, NC, was grown by the 1750's and was associated with the Whitteds (A Quaker planter family, name was originally "Whitehead," but the spelling was changed back and forth) also of Orange County, NC. James Glawson is identified as 'colored' ('colored' in those days meant not Negro but a mixture that included Negro, probably Indian, and White). James was apparently free. This is one possible identity for the father of Joseph.
John Glisson, who was born before 1740, in Duplin County, NC, the son of Dennis Glisson (a descendant of Obediah Lidia Glisson; see below) had several sons in the 1750's. It is not known if he had any sons named Joseph however, though that name Joseph appears frequently in the Glisson family lineage. There is however another John, a son of Obediah Lidia Glisson himself, who did have a son Joseph but this Joseph's children were born before 1728--too early for our Hugh!! At least one Joseph Glisson is believed to have been a "Lumbee" (the Lumbees lived in North Carolina, are believed to include in them descendants of the 'lost colony' of Roanoke, together with Algonquian and other Native ancestry, as well as African American ancestry).
Obediah Lidiah Glisson--who is alternately called just Obediah Glisson, born around 1700 or between 1650 and 1700, may trace his ancestry (on the Glisson side) to 1500's in England (when they were fighting the French-English 100 year war; the name Glisson is French). However, it's not yet clear that Glasson/Glawson and Glisson are the same name!
Obediah is--according to another source--a Biblical name. But it seems to me that the combination of Obediah and Lidiah exhibits the reduplication of whole syllable sequences (echoing) used often to intensify words in some Austronesian, African, and I think American Indian languages (not sure of the latter: I go around saying, 'Lakota, Nakota, Dakota,' which rhyme, but I'm not sure these three forms go together at all in reality--and they would need to go together to exhibit reduplication). (Semitic languages reduplicate too to intensify, but only the middle consonant, which they use to make a verb causative, for example, drs, the root for study, becomes drrs, with a double r, 'teach,' which for them is 'cause someone to study' or 'help bring about someone's studying.') However, anyone of course may choose to create a name that redublicates and I am not sure the name Lidiah has been verified.
Obediah's wife may have been named Mary.
His son was John or Dennis--one tree says Dennis, one John. But the land deals may indicate a John. There may have been other sons.
Obediah's grandson Abraham was born in 1748 in Duplin County, North Carolina, where he bought land in 1776. Frederick and John Glisson (whoever John was) were witnesses.
Abraham bought more land in 1778 and 1781 and 1782. A Dennis Glisson was one of the witnesses.
In between, Abraham witnessed a number of land deals (perhaps for family, I do not know).
Abraham sold his land in 1784 to an unknown, and then to a James Chambers family (brother-in-law) in 1785. In 1787 he appeared in Burke County, Georgia, buying land, which was later listed as bounty land (no longer his) in 1791. Some of the Glissons that travelled with him to Burke County, Frederick, Dennis, and Martha were listed in a 1798 census and the owners of the site believe Abraham dead, perhaps circa 1790. His son was Joseph who married Elizabeth or Martha Bowen. Their children were born in Burke, Bullock, and Tattnall County, Georgia. In one version of the site, he had a daughter listed as Meranora or Mary (though at one site I saw "Meranom," which, could be a French Creole name, meaning, "Name Mary" perhaps; though I note the characteristic /ee/ particle linking Mary to name as a permanent quality is absent but I think it can be in this case), but the site holder later decided to list this name not as "Meranom" but as "Marion" (either it was decided that Meranom was unlikely, or the site holder found more accurate information).
There was possibly a John Glasson who was perhaps a brother of Abraham, and who had a son Avery, born 20 August, 1804, in Clarke County, Georgia, where my great great grandmother Ann Glasson was married. This John Glasson apparently had slaves as he lists exactly eight in his Will, whom he leaves to his children--no Ann or Anne is mentioned among his children in the Will, but she may have been a relative, although not his child.
An Anne Glisson was born perhaps around 1791 to a Henry Glisson, son of Henry Glisson, son of a Joseph who likely was a brother of Abraham. Whether this Anne is a relative or not and whether this is our Joseph Glisson or not is unknown.
In the Obediah Glisson line are several Henry's and also one Hugh, birthplace unknown or in Tennessee, circa 1780. Hugh was the son of James Glisson and an unknown "Dennison." Hugh's father Isaac was a great grandson of Obediah (a grandson of his son John, and the son of John's son Dennis whose brother was the Abraham mentioned in the land deals) but the dates are a bit off. Nothing more is known of this Hugh but our own Hugh was supposedly the son of Joseph Glawson and his wife Sarah (probably Sarah Clark).
A Sarah and a Robert Glisson/Glasson are both listed on the Miller Roll and are most likely descendants of the Obediah Glisson family.
Various Glissons (not all ancestors, but all related) ultimately moved to Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and it seems Pennsylvania as well as to Georgia. A few stayed in North Carolina.
Some of the Glisson clan ultimately moved to Jackson, Alachua (the divide between settlers and the Seminole Nation), and Putnam counties of Florida, sometime perhaps just after 1840. Several served in a few Florida companies in the Civil War; one deserted.