In the Ulster Records, there was a Will for C. R. Hertel (a page, 256, is missing), where he leaves "To my only son (*) John all the rest of my estate, real and personal,; if he dies underage, then I give the same to John (*) Helms, son of Amos Helms of NY", proved Dec 22, 1756. There's not much one can make of it, except the existence of John and Amos Helms in NY. He probably lived in Kingston on the Hudson R., about 60 mi. N. of NY City.

In Ulster County, NY, Court Records 1779-1782, from National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 60:276-85 there was reference that: "Two men, apparently Tories, were indicted on 2 Jan: Johan Clouse for a misdemeanor in harboring and piloting persons adhering to [the king] and their journey to the enemy; Peter Helme for a misdemeanor in piloting Thomas Wood and George Harding, enemies, etc., and then proceeding to Niagara. For bail Helme was required to give a recognizance in the amt. of 1000 pounds, with two sureties, each in the amt. of 500 pounds....Both were to appear in the next meeting of the court, to be held in 1782."

It sounds like both were Palatines, who, true to their oath, refused to fight against the king. Many Settlers had this same conflict during the American. Rev. It would be necessary to have the 1782 court records to find the outcome. The point here is the additional information on a couple of Palatines.

In The Hunter list of Subsistence for NY Palatines, there was a listing for Johan Wilhelm Falckenbury 1-1-2-1. These were people who were supported by NY and Gov. Hunter made a record of it. He needs to be found in the other Palatine lists. He should be in the 1709 Palatine list, but does not seem to be.

The listings of the Palatines, a number of Helm people appear as marriage partners. This is difficult since these are descendants. It would take a lot of effort to unravel these cases. There are about 20 of them. These seem to be intermarriages and such among the Germans, only because they were who Henry Z. Jones was tracking, and trying to track back to Germany.
I think this is all I will do with this material at the moment.
The Falckenbury item is the most important one in the above. More information is needed on him.

1.6 North Carolina

Our chief focus in NC is the three brothers, George, Jonathan and Tilman Helms who migrated to Carolina in about 1747. There were other Helm/Helms etc in North and South Carolina who are not the focus of our principal efforts.

Craig and Parker families discussion below is from ""CAROLINA CRADLE: SETTLEMENT OF THE NW CAROLINA FRONTIER", 1746_62.

"The Craig (or Cragh) family settled in Freehold, Monmouth County, NJ before 1721. Archibald and Mary Craig with their son James left Maryland (probably accompanied by John Howard) sometime prior to 1756 and proceeded to the Yadkin Valley."(NC) (In Rowan Co. Deeds II, 360,470, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, records show that Archibald Craig's widow married John Howard.)

**John Howard is a name associated with Mayberry Helms in Maryland. Conkwright was not sure of his relationship, but the Parish family records show that Mayberry's step daughter married a John Howard
in Maryland.

Archibald Craig, his wife Mary, and his son James purchased 17 town lots before 1763 on the east square, except for one bought by Mary Craig after her husband's death early 1758. Archibald Craig's occupation is listed as innkeeper and ferry operator. On 10 April 1702, John Craig of Amboy (NJ)deeded to his son Archibald a lot in Monmouth county.

Other occupations: James Neville, John Neville, Nathaniel Pope, tailors; Elisha Parker, weaver and yeoman.

10 July 1698: JOSEPH HELM, Thomas Huft, Thomas Pearson, "ye original is pt eaten by ye ratts". Who was this Joseph Helm? I knew of none by that name prior to Leonard Helm's arrival in Virginia. (One Joseph Helm (sp) did go from the Shenandoah Valley, VA to SC, where we have data for him and a friend and probable Tidwell in-law.)

The above is isolated Craig data - not necessarily leading to Rachel Craig, wife of Tilman Helms of NC.

Jno. Meredith, a schoolmaster, deeded 100 a. to George Wilocks on 2 aug 1696. He is also mentioned in 1684.

Obviously, we have a lot of information on NC Helms and allied families in our NC Helms website. Here,we are assembling the English "connections" sort of things.

1.7 Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania was a large scale immigration point and sometimes settlement region for many people who came to America. These data are intended to be helpful in making that primary link at the water's edge so to speak, here with those we hope to link from elsewhere.
The key thing about Pennsylvania as far as the NC Helms is concerned is that by the time they came here, land East of the Susquehanna R. had been largely taken up. Some settlements were beginning West of that river, but Wm Penn's land office was closed for a great while after Penn's death. Therefore no permanent Helms settlement in PA was likely.
Re-sales of property were expensive. The Proprietor had begun to permit settlements near Hallam in present-day York County These were called Blunston Deeds or permits for which actual deeds were to be made available later. We have a list of such deeds but there were no Helm/Helms, etc. There was a Polk Deed. Thus PA was likely to have been bypassed by our Helms. Some thought has been given to their settlement in NJ, and just lately we have focused on a
Thomas Helms there who may have been in a reverse migration from NC, where there was a Thomas next to Tilman Helms in Old Anson Co, NC.

PHILADELPHIA NATURALIZATION RECORDS

(These are from Preston Lanc England)

Hugh Helm Sr, Gr BI cp 15 Sep 1866 sc 19 Sep 1868
Hugh Helm Jr cp 15 Sep 1866 sc 19 Sep 1868

Blunston Data

See Blunston Data in another section of this website.

The Blunston List has been reviewed by our English workers and it does not list any Lancashire gentry names - apart from Ashton; but, quite a few are familiar names from the Caribbean.

The one Polk is likely have been from resettling Polk's of Maryland. The Polk's had been from Scotland and had passed though Ireland on their way here. That name is also POLOCK.

The only interesting name from the English point of view was Davenport. Their family seat was Cheshire and they intermarried with the Goosnargh, Lancashire Helmes.

In view of the Dutton Helmes we have found, they are of interest to us.

A book,"Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania". compiled by Gilbert Cope in 1871 has been found and needs to be researched looking for possible Helm/Helme marriages.
Besides the English Helmes/Elmes, etc., there were German Helms in Pa, who are not being discussed here.

1.8 South Carolina

South Carolina was settled by direct immigration as well as by migrations from more northern colonies. Many people migrated to SC from the Caribbean. Finding those links has proved to be a challenge. These are some isolated bits of information about SC settlement from the English perspective. Willow Bend Books and Family Line Publications has a book, "Pee Dee Settlers" by John M. Gregg, 1993. That book contains a list of individuals who settled in the Pee Dee region of SC before the first US census in 1790. It gives the families, dates and locations and other information, when available.
There were no Helms or similar spellings. There were several Polk's, beginning with Thomas, Sr. in 1759, and one Alexander Craig family in 1772; 5 Presseleys, beginning with John and Margaret in 1737; 18 Smiths, beginning with Richard and Mary Blakely in 1725.
There is a town of Newberry in South Carolina - one wonders if it has any Helme connections? The reason is because the Gillingham Helmes had a stately home called Newberry House. See later p.34. The town of Newberry was linked to the Davenports (could be related to the Goosnargh Helmes) and the Hills (could be related to the Gillingham group).
Need more on that.

Elmes family in South Carolina.

In the book "Rivers & Region of Early South Carolina" by Henry A.M. Smith, there is a section on Thomas Elmes. The earliest mention of him is in 1690 when he witnessed the will of Paul Parker.
Also in the Regimental Book of Captain James Bentham 1778_1780 which was published in the South Carolina Historical & Genealogical Magazine Volume 53 1952 page 161, there is a mention of Private William Elmes, July 1778. Return of Captain James Bentham's Company of Militia in the Charles Town Regiment commanded by Col. Maurice Simons.
The South Carolina Historical Society also has two files on the Elmes family.
One is in Special Collection: Motte Alston Read Collection. Elmes family, the other is in the General File _ Families. Elmes
There were connections of the Elmes and Jeffords in SC and in Barbados.
Hazel Jefford, of Spanaway, WA. Has indicated that in some material
Ann Jefford is listed as the sister of Amos Jefford, (actually she is his daughter). She married John Elmes after Amos wrote his will, in Barbados, on 24 October 1671 and before 13 January 1684 when the will was proved. Ann was a witness, in Barbados, to the will of Sarah Lynley, mother_ in_law of William Jefford (son of Amos) on 10 November 1705.

More is needed on John Jefford, another son of Amos Jefford. Amos arrived in South Carolina December 1671, and was one of the first settlers.

In material provided by Hazel there is a connection of the Elmes in Barbados and the Elmes in SC and of course the involvement of the Jeffords.

The significance of this is that we have had numerous items on Helmes and Elmes in the Caribbean. This is a welcome event of finding American settlers with ties to the Caribbean.

Also note that the sources which Hazel has used indicate that there are files in SC for many early SC families. She sent 5 pages loaded with family names. For each, there is a file in those references.

Just scanning thru, I see a number we should be interested in. Among them are Tillman/Tilghman, Pollock, Holmes, Fenwicke, and Lindsay, plus some others and of course the Elmes. (Hazel had copied but 5 pages out of about 80.) It is well known that many of the SC settlers came here from Barbados. Perhaps we have not paid enough attention to SC.

While the Wagon Road trip was a common experience for vast numbers of North Carolinian families, it is not inconceivable that our early NC Helms writers erred in pointing to the Virginia Wagon Road as the migration path of our Helms.

1.9 Virginia

Quite a few Helm people have been found in Virginia. Some of them probably came from Britain. Notable are Moses Helm and Leonard Helm who were early Virginia settlers.
On that, the work of Bessie Conkwright is dealt with in the Other Helms section of this website and will not be discussed here. Bob Law has produced a book on Moses. There are others who require our attention, such as the John Helme in very early James City and William Helme who lived in early Prince George Co., Va. next to George Tillman of Christopher/Gideon line in VA and MD.

Willow Bend Books and Family Line Publications has a book, "Early Virginia Immigrants", by George C. Greer, first pub. 1912, reprint 1998..

That book expands the List of Virginia Cavaliers and Pioneers, by Nugent. Nugent had primarily listed those with PATENTS. This expands that to other land holders of record. And, it gives the names of settlers whose names occur in the State Land Office for the years 1623-1666. It gives the County (of that time) for most of them
a) Christopher Tillman 1638, was listed. He lived at James City County. As I recall his location was not listed in this book
b) Some Meeks were listed
c) Some Rhodes/Rodes were listed
d) 13 people associated with Merediths were listed
e) Specific individuals who were substantially involved with the settlement of others were listed
(1) George Mynifie (52
(2) Capt Thos Willoughby (18
(3) Robert Hallom/Hallum (16
(4) Robert Elam/Elan (10
(5) Richard Nelmes (7

Other points of interest:

Stewards were in Virginia in the early 1600s _ they were intermarried with the Helmes _ the English Helmes/Elmes must have been out there too.

ENGLISH DUPLICATES OF LOST VIRGINIAN RECORDS BY LOUIS DES COGNETS, JR.

In 1702 GEORGE TILLMAN was south side of Blackwater (Creek)
WILLIAM HELMES AND GEORG TILLMAN were in Prince George County paying rent in 1704.

ENGLISH ADVENTURERS AND VIRGINIAN SETTLERS BY NOEL CURRERBRIGGS

P263, WILL OF MARGARET OXBOROUGH proved 22 Jan 1625/6 by Charles Mordant. Marg Oxeborough of Lynn, Norfolk, widow.......... mentions"and 3 acres of copyhold of 20/_ per annum purchased of JOHN ELMES AND GRACE HIS WIFE, and ELIZABETH CHAPMAN at 21. Mentions CARTWRIGHT, PARLETT etc

Page 268, Lovelace Gorsuch para mentions HAWKINS and CHAPMAN and GOODWIN _ again Gillingham Helme/Elme connections.

Todds were related to the Mathews and Philips _as were the Gillingham Helme/Elme branch.

See also Northamptonshire, below.

CAVALIERS & PIONEERS PATENT BOOK, VIRGINIA LAND OFFICE, CAPITOL BUILDING, RICHMOND.

"Mr John Harvey 600 acres, in a small creek called Carrawtucks falling into the river of Kecoughtanke, which river falls into Carolina River, 25 Sept 1663, page 97 (590). Trans of 12 persons: James Harvey, Hump, Evans, Ann Wombwell, Jos Poole, Seph Farrell, THO ELMES, Tho Poole, Wm Basse, John Davis, Rich Blunt, Sam Jnkins (or Inkins), Arr Brown, Cha Sawe____?

Patent Book 5, P466

John Davies, 200 acres, Low. Parish of Isle of Wight Co., last of June 1664, p224 (133). Beg at poynt of land called the Goatepen Neck at the mouth of Taberers Cr., running up Pagan Cr., to mouth of Hudnalls Cr., including Buchers Island, up Hudnalls Cr., to land of THOMAS ELMES, along same and land of Wm Dawson to Taberers Cr., formerly called HUTCHINSON's Cr. Trans. of 4 persons; WM JONES, JNO FARMER,, WM TOWNE, MARY WILLIAMS.

Book 1 Part II

CHRISTOPHER TILMAN 1635 James City Area.

Book NO 3 page 249
WILLIAM FREKE, 300 acres, Northumberland Co., 19.Oct 1653 p52 NIy. Upon Hollis Creek and a creek dividing this land from land of JOHN COOKE.
Trans. of 6 persons: MARY DAVIS, FRA COALE, HENRY BARNES, 3 negroes "by assignment of Abrah Moone".
(The Frekes were related to the Gillingham Helmes)

Book NO 4 P418

JAMES NEVIL, 1300 acres Northampton Co 26 Mar 1662 (p539) Mentions: Ely, Matchepungo River. Granted to Thomas Herman 1654 and assigned to said Nevil.

In the USA, From NEW JERSEY PATENTS & DEEDS 1664_1703: John Nevill of New Salem, gent, and wife Creseda, 29 a. in New Salem; John was a weaver from Stepney, London. He came over with John Fenwick; had a taste for the law and writing; was a magistrate in 1679, an agent of William Penn 1681_4, which indicates that he did not follow his trade here. Salem Co, NJ records are filled with mention of his name.

Page 208 MR ANTHONY ELIOT 1150 acres 20 Mar 1605 lying on the NW side of the North River in Mockjack Bay beg. on the NE side of a cr which divides this land from the lands of THOMAS CHAPMANS _ mentions HOLDENS lands. Trans. Of 23 persons including Richd Nevil and others.

P82 STEPHEN CHARLTON 1000 acres Accomack Co 10 May 1638 P528. mentions 20 persons: ROBT RHOEDES, ALEX CHAPMAN, JON ENGLAND, THO SYMONS.

P57 Pat Book 6
MR GEORGE MOORE 1400 acres Isle of Wight Co, Va. on the 2nd SW of Black Water 12 May 1669 Nr Beaver Dam br. Trans. of 28 persons: THO ELMES

Patent Book 7 p208
THOMAS BUTT and THOMAS MILBURN 3000 acres Law Norf Co., upon a br of th s'n br of Elizabeth River and called by name of Sturchcombe or Stinchcomb 20 Apr 1680. mentions lots of names including:_WM FOX, RICH SANDERS, THO WILSON, by certificate MATH ELMES.

Book NO 6 P 29
MILES LEWIS and RICHARD LEWIS orphans of Rich. LEWIS 400 acres in Chuckatuck Parrish 29 Jan 1667. 8 persons: HENRY JOHNSON, MARY ELMES, JOHN JONES, PE..... STRONG etc.

P184
JOHN TURNER 1036 acres, 2 R 32 p Chas. Citty Co in Waineoke Par, N side James River bet. Sellar Run and Fishing Run 20 May 1678 p643 Adj LT COL CLARKE, MAJOR EDLOE, MR BRADFORD. 21 persons including JNO PRICE, MARG ELMES, SAR ASHELL (?), ELIZ ALLEN, JNO DAVIS, ROBT WEBB.

ENGLISH ADVENTURERS AND VIRGINIAN SETTLERS BY NOEL CURRER_BRIGGS
P263
WILL OF MARGARET OXBOROUGH proved 22 Jan 1625/6 by Charles Mordant. Marg Oxeborough of Lynn, Norfolk, widow.......... mentions"and 3 acres of copyhold of 20/_ per annum purchased of JOHN ELMES AND GRACE HIS WIFE, and ELIZABETH CHAPMAN at 21. Mentions CARTWRIGHT, PARLETT etc

(Please note Parlett comes up later in connection with land at Mere in co Wiltshire owned by the Gillingham group).

VIRGINIA WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS 1632 _ 1800 BY CLAYTON TORRENCE

BEDFORD
Thos Helm 1781

FREDERICK
Meredith Helme1752
Meredith HelmeJr1752a
Leonard Helme1754 w
Geo Helme1769 w
Thos Helme1778 w

WESTMORELAND
Henry Netherton1717

SURRY
Francis Maybury1712 w
Eliz Maybury1715 w
Francis Maybury1728 w
Eleanor Maybury1735 i

LANCASTER
John Meredith1758 i
John Meredith1784 w

VIRGINIA HISTORICAL GLEANINGS BY BODDIE
P94
JOHN READE died in 1739 for at the March Court 1739 Certificate was granted to Elizabeth Reed for administration of the estate of John Reed. The estate was ordered to be appraised by WILLIAM BRANCH, SAMUEL GOODS, WILLIAM MORE AND JOHN ELAM (Records 1737_46 p 98)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VOLS INDEXED IN THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL INDEX

Lots mentioned, including the Earls Fauconburg.
We have found Fauconburgs in England. So, just whether we are correct in making the Falkenburgs we have found into Germans is open to doubt.
Alan K Tillman Research into the TIL(L)MAN Family_ Found material on AVERY and HELMS/ELMS
Also a book "Early Virginia Immigrants" compiled by George C. Greer, pub by Genealogical Publishing Inc in 1978, The frontispiece says the book covers the period 1623 to 1666, 1 enclose copies of two pages of interest: p 16 lists a number of AVERY and variants, p 106 lists ELLOM which might be a variant of ELM?. There were no HELM or TILGHMAN references.

In "Historical Collections of Virginia" edited be Henry Howe and republished by Regional Publishing Co as a reissue of the original, first published in 1845 in Charleston, under the chapter concerning Hannover County on p 295 there is a copy of a description by a French officer of an unfortunate Mr. TILGHMAN whose hospitality for the British commander was not recompensed. There were no references to HELMS or AVERY.

"The Virginia Historical Magazine Vol 34" pp 152 and 153, published in 1926, has references to HELMS and TILLMAN. The obscure HELM FOOTE reference may be a blind alley. However Doctor J. D. Tillman jnr, whose wife bore him three children in the early 1920(s) before her death, may have triggered useful responses to his attempt to link the captain of the merchant ship GOLDEN FORTUNE ie.Samuel TILGHMAN with the settler Gideon TILLMAN, I still have no direct evidence that they were related and have yet to identify the birth data of Samuel TILGHMAN who may have plied the Atlantic for as many as 30 years _ I have not been able to find evidence of which English port or ports he used even though he definitely sailed under government. warrant on occasion.

Samuel TILGHMAN commanded GOLDEN FORTUNE in 1653 and CONSTANT FRIENDSHIP in 1666.

GideonTILGHMAN. Col. Stephen's book gives some details of his land ownership and lineage at #1687etseq. I have extracted the appropriate references and. The paragraphs refer to land known as Tilghman's Adventure". I have seen in Soc of Gen library, but have not retained a copy, in a book carried Accomac Co a description of the boundaries of this tract of land. Pa 272 of the Philadelphia Naturalization records covers HELM and variants, I hope this is the Hugh you were looking for. (The HELMs reference seems to be of German origin)

"The New England Marriages prior to 1700" edited by Clarence Almon Torrey and published in 1987 by Gen Pub Inc (ISBN 08063_1102_9), It reports on pa 352 that one Sarah ELMES married Thomas HATCH on 4 Feb 1662 at a place called Scituate. That would be in Mass. Colony. Other Elmes are reported on pa 249.

Another spelling variant, this time ELLMS, In Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England" by James Savage, pub by Gen Pub Inc in four volumes under ISBN 0_8063_0759.5, in Vol IV p 507 we find reference, to Rhodolphus ELLMS who is probably the same chap as cited in the marriages listed in the previous paragraph,

In "Colonial Men & Times" edited by Harper pub 1916 at p 240 it says:
"In the Old Court House of Glasgow Kentucky found F, G, TWYMAN married Mary J. HELM Feb 23, 1859 by Jepe. Smith,"

In "Wills and Administrations of Accomack Co, VA 1663_1800" compiled by Stratton Nottingham and pub by Polyanthus Cottonport in 1973, there is a reference to: "Robert DOWNES married Mary AVORY on 31 Jan 1661/62 in Hungars Parish, Accomack County, VA."

A reference to a marriage between Anna Maria RINGOLD and Colonel Frisby TILGHMAN of Maryland in 1795. Source: a book called "American Pedigree".