Notes

1 Rose M.E. MacDonald, "Clarke County: A Daughter of Frederick. A History of Early Families and Homes" (1943) pp 10--11 (printed in vol 23 of the Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association (PCCHA (1983-4)).

2 See Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families, vol 2, (Lynchburg, Va, 1907; rpt Genealogical Publishing Co, 1994, 2001 [in Virginia Genealogies and Biographies, 1500s-1900s CD-ROM Disk 1]) pp 192-248 (chapter 8, "The Carter Family").

3 Hopewell Friends' History 1734-1934, pp 202-3 (also cited by Dee Ann Buck in "A Tabulated Genealogy of the Family of Jacob and Mary Sowers Sr of Virginia" (Fairfax, Virginia, 1991; copy on deposit with the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society at the Handley Library)).

4 In Court Booklet p 5 and Commissioner's Book vol II p 194 (collection on mfm at LVa). See also John H. Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution (Richmond, 1938) p 443.

5 p 9 (written in 1943 but printed in vol 23 of PCCHA (1983-4)).

6 Kerfoot, Kearfott, and Allied Families in America (Privately Printed, 1948), p 8.

7 Frederick Co Marriage Records.

8 Virginia Marriages to 1800 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

9 Hopewell Friends' History pp 203-4.

10 Outside of our direct lineage (William - George - John Daniel - Daniel Sowers Kerfoot), most of my information comes from the charts in Kerfoot and Allied Families and Pedigree Resource File CD 5, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) (hereafter cited as PRF; a compilation of unverified pedigrees submitted to the LDS on-line web site; in the case of the Kerfoots, it appears to be chiefly derived from the text portions of Kerfoot and Allied Families, which I do not otherwise have access to). I have also used Buck, "Tabulated Genealogy". All three sources must be used with care and the information verified against primary sources.

11 Court Booklet p 17; Certificate 1; and Commissioner's Book, vol II, p 193 (originals on microfilm at LVa).

12 This date is consistent with the date and probate of his will; in PCCHA vol 2 (1941), "Report of the Graveyard Committee", 18, his death date is given mistakenly as 23 November 1811, "aged 72 years and 5 months" but "1811" is doubtless a typographical error for "1841".

13 Her dates are derived from her tombstone inscription, according to which she died on 27 Nov 1844 "aged 67 yrs. 4 months and 18 days" (PCCHA vol 2 (1941) p 18).

14 Virginia Marriages to 1800 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

15 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

16 Hopewell Virginia Meeting Membership Records, 1759-76, rec 722 [need page # and exact title!].

17 This information, given on p 19 of "Tabulated Genealogy", is confirmed by Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com); the information given by EBJ and in Kerfoot and Allied Families, that his second wife was named Louisa, is apparently wrong. Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 lists a marriage by a Louisa Armistead to a Charles Taliaferro and there may have been some confusion between these two women. Another possible source for the confusion is that Joseph G Carr, Jr, one of Maria Carr's brothers, married a woman named Lucinda Armistead (see the Carr Connection.

18 It's worth noting that John Kerfoot, John Bradford Kerfoot's father, mentions owning land in Clarke County, Missouri, in his will.

19 Both marriages listed in Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

20 These dates come from DSK's tombstone; the date of his death is confirmed by a chancery suit filed 22 December 1887, which states that he died on or about 26 August 1884.

21 Maria's dates are taken from her tombstone in Ivy Hill Cemetery. The date of her marriage to DSK is confirmed by Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com)

22 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

23 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

24 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com); in "Tabulated Genealogy" p 20 and in EBJ's 1932 Kerfoot notes, he is called "Baylis" or "Bayliss". The form found in Virginia Marriages is closer to the spelling in John Kerfoot's will (where he is called Baley") and shown to be correct by the later census returns.

25 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

26 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

27 According to EH.Net, an academic web service for business and economic historians, $31,140 in the year 1850 had the same purchasing power as $706,436.74 does in the year 2001 (John J. McCusker, "Comparing the Purchasing Power of Money in the United States (or Colonies) from 1665 to Any Other Year Including the Present" Economic History Services, 2001, URL: http://www.eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/). Of course, much of that value was tied up in land and slaves, but it is a formidable indication of the wealth of the pre-War Kerfoots.

28 For information about the Baynes in general, I have used M.E. Bayne, "The Bayne Family", The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, ser 1, vol 13 (1905), pp 284--7, rpt in Genealogies of Virginia Families vol 1 pp 236--9, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc: 1982). I think "M.E. Bayne" is probably Marian Bayne, librarian at Hollins Institute (later Hollins College, now Hollins University) and one of Richard's descendants. She was known in our family as "Cousin Marian" -- she was still at Hollins when my mother was a student there, living with Miss Mattie Cocke, daughter of Hollins" founder and the last member of the Cocke family to act as president of the college.

29 The major sources for this document are: the Sowers chart in Kerfoot and Allied Families; "A Tabulated Genealogy of the Family of Jacob and Mary Sowers Sr of Virginia" by Dee Ann Buck, on deposit at the Handley Library, Winchester; and EB Jackson's handwritten draft "The Sowers Connection", dated January 1932.

30 Indexed on line as part of the Virginia Early Census Index in the Virginia Census 1800-90 Database (Ancestry.com).

31 Also indexed on line as part of the Virginia Early Census Index in the Virginia Census 1800-90 Database (Ancestry.com).

32 Buck, "Tabulated Genealogy", pp 16-17. Mrs Buck corrects the genealogy implied for Mrs Robins in the letter she quotes by observing that Mrs Robins was descended from John Sowers and Jane Knight, rather than from Daniel I and Catherine.

33 These birth and death dates for Lydia are as given in "Tabulated Genealogy" p 17; however, as discussed in the Kerfoot line, her gravestone establishes the dates 1777-1844. Mrs Buck gives John Kerfoot's middle name as "David"; the family traditions preserved by EBJ give his middle name as "Daniel". Unfortunately he never seems to have used either a middle name or a middle initial, so the question is moot.

34 This date is confirmed by Virginia Marriages to 1800 (On-line database at Ancestry.com).

35 This date is confirmed by Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (On-line database at Ancestry.com), in which the bride's given name is listed as Maria Ann.