| Name |
William Elliott [1, 2] |
| Prefix |
Rev. Pvt. |
| Birth |
20 Oct 1754 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA  [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Anecdote |
11 Jun 1770 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [4] |
- In his will of 11 Jun 1770 Hugh Roberts left a legacy to William Elliott, son of Thomas.
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| Anecdote |
1773 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [5] |
- According to Rev. John W.A. Elliott's Ledger Book, his grandfather, William Elliott the second son, in early life was rather disposed to enjoy the dance, the coonhunt, and other diversions peculiar to young men of the times. He was fond of the company of his friends and neighbors and was frequently associated with them. In those days the oyster roast was a great entertainment. Neighbors were invited to come and partake and make it a means of social enjoyment. At other times a potato roast. At such gatherings our fathers of olden times used to spend an evening but generally closed the scene with prayer. The social glass was not considered out of order in these olden times. Few farmers but had the case of bottles well filled with liquors. It was their medical chest and few cases of acute diseases which was relieved from the medical chest. The case contained twelve half gallon glass bottles with a place to put each bottle. These bottles were labeled what they contained. Some domestic brandy, others with West Indies rum, one bottle in front was marked camphor, another ----- . Another with Bitters, various barks, lightwood splinters that formed a bitter, another bottle marked apple blossom. With this medical chest each farmer was his own Doctor. Onions were kept for colics in horses. Several onions were tied up in a rag beaten and juice squeezed out in some vessel. Half pint molasses and half pint of spirits mixed well together and put in a chunk bottle always on hand for the purpose and the horse was drenched with this mixture. If it was not a very bad case, one drench(ing) relieved him. If the horse had trenchers supposed half pint of new milk was added. These were the customs and the usual treatment of horses in those olden times. He was not intemperate in the use of intoxicants. Peach brandy was the principal liquors made by all the farmers from their own peach orchards. West Indies rum was obtained from West Indies traders, their source of supply. The article of clothing was from their flax, cotton, and wool, all raised by each farmer, prepared, spun, woven and made up by the farmer's wife and their daughters. Their groceries were obtained by the shipment of their flaxseed, black eyed peas, beans, supplying the farmers with his necessary outfits for the year through corn, oats, barley and such products of the far was used to pay rents and other family expenses. The surplus money was put out at interest or in the till of the big blue chest. These were the happy days, the people of those times did not desire to be rich, having food and raiment and a little over was their chief desire.
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| Rev War Veteran |
1775 [6, 7] |
- It appears to the court that William Elliott, a revolutionay soldier made his declaration before this court as required by the War Department on 1 Aug 1832 in order to effect the benefits of the Act of 7 Jun 1832. William Elliott was a resident of this county and died on 23 Sep 1836, left a widow Anzele Elliott and she died on 7 Oct 1841 and left one child Anzele Wallace who still survives. William Elliott married Anzele on 10 Dec 1781. More specifically he was a private in the Militia Company of Capt. William Polk, which was attached to the Regiment Commanded by Col. Southy Simpson and that he was principally engaged in guarding and defending the exposed places on the sea and Bay side. According to Rev. John W.A. Elliott's Ledger Book, his grandfather William Elliott, after fighting through the Revolutionary War as a common soldier braving its hardships, suffered at times as a prisoner of war, lived through the campaign and returned to his native home.
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| Will - Named in Father's will |
19 Nov 1784 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [8] |
- He was shown as a son William Elliott in the will of Thomas Elliott Sr.
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| Anecdote |
1785 |
Oak Grove Chapel, Accomack Co, Virginia [9] |
- The Sunday School started in 1785 by William Elliott is believed to be the earlist which is still in existance, as it is yet carried on at Oak Grove Church (tract A48A).
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| Anecdote |
1786 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [10] |
- William Elliott was said to have been, with William Downing, one of the two original Methodists on the Virginia Shore. Elliott's contribution to the life of the early Methodist Church on the Shore was unique: he neither exhorted nor preached nor built a chapel, but instead founded a Sunday school. Because of it he is still at the center of a minor historical controversy. He lived in Bradford's Neck near the modern town of Quinby and was a member of the Burton's society after the chapel was built in 1801. Like many another Methodist of his day, he was a firm hater of slavery. He had been a prisoner of war for a time during the Revolution, and politically was a Whig. He used slaves to work his sizable plantation, but always purchased them with the distinct understanding that, after the slave had worked out his purchase price at a fair wage, he would be free. He also employed local white workers and had "poor white boys bound to him until they became of age." In 1785, just five year after a man named Robert Raikes in England founded the first Sunday school anywhere in the world, William Elliott established a school on Sundays in his home in Accomack County. Its purpose was simple: to teach reading and writing to members of his own family, as well as to those bondsmen and slaves on the plantation who wanted learning, in hopes that all would be able to study the scriptures on their own. Elliott set aside a regular hour on Sunday afternoons when his own children and the white bondsmen would be taught reading. Slaves and black servants and their children were also taught once a week, but on a different day and in another part of the plantation away from the main house. In 1818 Burton's congregatoin invited him to locate the school in their church. He directed the school until his death in 1836, and the Sunday School he began in 1785 is still meeting each week over 200 years later. The original Elliott records and documents, including William Elliott's own Bible, were handed down in his family for generations, but the particular document involving the Sunday School was lost. Wessie Nock Eason, Elliott's great-great-granddaughter, studied the available documents and the family tradition in 1901, and it was she who first made the claim for priority of the Eastern Shore school.
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| Anecdote |
1790 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [5] |
- According to Rev. John W.A. Elliott's Ledger Book, Rev. William Elliott made a profession as a Christian under the first Methodist preaching, two evangelists or missionaries that made their first efforts in his neighborhood. He never doubted his conversion, lived in the practice of his profession all through life. Husband was a true Methodist and the wife a true Baptist. They lived in Christian harmony equally devoted. After the conversion of the husband they made a covenant agreement to establish family prayers night and morning. They further agreed that the wife to conduct the services at night and the husband in the morning, this covenant continued through life, no exceptions to the rule. This course of religious conduct had a weight of influence in the community in which they lived. Rev. Elliott was called the chimney corner preacher and it was true he preached at home to all that visited him. He invariably devoted a part of his conversation to religious subjects and the wife was equally so in her conversation to carry out her religious influence. She was very liberal with her means in assisting the poor and afflicted of her neighborhood. Rev. Elliott was a staunch Whig, a true American and fought for American independence and freedom and always claimed the right of freedom politically and religiously as to his own opinion. He was opposed to American slavery. His servants at hand were white men, boys or women was preferred. This act associated him with a large lot of white children that was raised in the family. All were taught to read the Scriptures. For this purpose he had his after work Sunday schools and evening schools spelling reading in 1785. His colored people that he bought he understanding was to be freed when they worked out their purchase money but at regular wages. This promise encouraged them to be faithful as servants. They also learned to read the Scriptures, not in class with the white children but he gave them time to learn when they had a desire to do so.
Their long religious life led them to realize many religious changes. At times religion would become down very low. Many would backslide, but the changed did not move them in the least, knowing in whom they trusted. Their confidence was in the Lord in whom there was no variableness or shade of turning, and the last end was peace, which will be noted more at large with the peculiar incidents connected with their last end, extracted from an obituary written by their only surviving daughter.
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| Will - Named in Mother's will |
10 Jul 1793 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [11] |
- He was shown as a son William Elliott in the will of Ann Ellioitt, widow of Thomas Elliott, dec'd.
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| Will - Named as a Brother in a will |
25 Dec 1804 |
Northampton County, Virginia, USA [12] |
- He was shown as a brother William Elliott in the will of Thomas Elliott of Northampton County. His son Thomas Elliott was also named as a nephew.
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| Will - Witnessed a will |
3 Jan 1805 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [13] |
- It was on this date that Charles Elliott, William Elliott & Fanny Damberlin witnessed the will of Elizabeth Rodger.
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| Census head of household |
1830 |
St. George Parish, Accomack Co, Virginia [14] |
- He was shown as William Elliott Sen, a head of household, age 70-80. Listed with him were 2 males, age 10-15; 1 male, age 15-20; 1 male, age 20-30; 1 male, age 30-40; 1 male, age 40-50; 1 female, age 10-15; 1 female age 30-40; 1 felmale age 70-80; and 1 free colored person.
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| Will |
20 Apr 1832 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [15] |
- To daughter Angela Wallace 1/3 of my moveable property after my widow's dower is taken out. To my daughter Angela & William Wallace her husband during their lives 1/3 of my lands in Northampton County which I obtained in right of my brother Thomas Elliott (at) the death of John Elliott of Northampton excepting the dower now held by the widow of John Elliott dec'd. To my grandsons John W. Elliott & William T. Bell (both under age 21) the balance of my moveable property & the balance of my land in Northampton County. To John Kelly (of S.) if he is living at my dec'd my ... Friend Jacob Bell & grandson John W. Elliott Extrs. Witt: John S. Bundick, Nancy Bundick & Joshua Burton.
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| Land - they were named in a land cause |
29 May 1833 |
Northampton County, Virginia, USA [16] |
- He was shown as William Elliott, who was living at the time of his nephew John T. Elliott's intestate death in N'hamp Co, VA, some 10 years earlier.
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| Anecdote |
1835 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [5] |
- According to Rev. John W.A. Elliott's Ledger Book, the old gentleman at length became so old and infirm that he was paralyzed unable to stand alone for some two years before his death. Yet in his helpless state family prayers were strictly attended to, a great many social calls by his friends, which proved to be of much enjoyment to him and was never forgetful to tender his thanks for their attentions to hmm. He was patient under affliction, never was known to murmur at or wish his suffering less. Departed this life Sept 1836 leaving his widow and one daughter and two grandsons in his 82 year his widow died in Sept 1841 aged 83.
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| Death |
23 Sep 1836 [3] |
| Probate |
31 Oct 1836 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [15] |
- Garrison Burton & George H. Bell securities.
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| Anecdote |
30 Dec 1850 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA [17] |
- On 30 Dec 1850 it was recorded that William Elliott, Rev. Soldier, was a resident of this county and died circa 23 Sep 1836 leaving a widow, Anxell Elliott; she died 7 Oct 1841 leaving one child, Anzell Wallace who still survives. William Elliott and Anzell married 10 Dec 1781.
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| Reference Identifier |
DAR Patriot #A037628 (Pvt. with Capt. William Polk & Col. Southy Simpson) |
| Record ID |
42466 |
| Burial |
Bradford-Burton Cemetery, Quinby, Accomack County, Virginia, USA [3] |
- His tombstone shows him as William Elliott, husband of Anzele Elliott, 20 Oct 1754 - 23 Sep 1836, age 82 years.
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 Siblings |
3 brothers and 2 sisters |
| + | 1. Hannah Elliott, b. Abt 1740, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Bef 10 Jul 1793, Accomack County, Virginia, USA (Age < 53 years)
╚═Isaiah (of Timothy) Kelly, Sr., b. Abt 1740, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. May 1821 (Age 81 years), m. Abt 1760, Accomack County, Virginia, USA
| | + | 2. Anne 'Nancy' Elliott, b. Abt 1745, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Feb 1824, Accomack County, Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)
╚═William (52) Bell, b. Abt 1734, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Sep 1800 (Age 66 years), m. Abt 1765
| | + | 3. John Elliott, Sr., b. Abt 1748, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Mar 1825 (Age 77 years)
╚═Anne Beach, b. Abt 1745, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown , m. Abt 1770
| | + | 4. Rev. Pvt. William Elliott, b. 20 Oct 1754, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. 23 Sep 1836 (Age 81 years)
╚═Anzele (83) Bradford, b. 16 Sep 1757, Bradford Neck, St. George Parish, Accomack Co, Virginia d. 7 Sep 1841 (Age 83 years), m. 10 Dec 1781, Accomack County, Virginia, USA
| | + | 5. Charles Elliott, b. Abt 1756, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Bef 1820 (Age < 63 years)
╚═Seymour 'Semer' Lurton, b. Abt 1757, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Abt 1792 (Age 35 years), m. Abt 1780
╚═Elizabeth 'Betty' Edwards, b. Abt 1766, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Bef 5 Nov 1797 (Age < 31 years), m. Bef 5 Nov 1797
╚═Bridget (--?--), b. Abt 1775, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown , m. Bef 21 Oct 1805
| | + | 6. Thomas Elliott, b. Abt 1758, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Jan 1805, Northampton County, Virginia, USA (Age 47 years)
╚═Keziah Turner, b. Abt 1760, Northampton County, Virginia, USA d. Bef 25 Dec 1804 (Age < 44 years), m. 10 Aug 1784, Northampton County, Virginia, USA
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| Patriarch & Matriarch |
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| Person ID |
I42466 |
MilesFiles23 |
| Last Modified |
19 Mar 2023 |
1754 - 1836 (81 years)
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