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Mother: Agnes "Nancy" MCCOTTRY |
_Hugh MCCUTCHEN "the Immigrant"_+
| (1720 - 1769) m 1750
_George MCCUTCHEN __________|
| (1754 - 1826) m 1777 |
| |_Isabella COOPER _______________+
| (1720 - 1769) m 1750
_Thomas MCCUTCHEN _______|
| (1783 - 1822) |
| | _Thomas SCOTT __________________+
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| |_Mary SCOTT ________________|
| (1755 - 1794) m 1777 |
| |_Jannet WATSON _________________+
| (1730 - 1772)
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|--Mary Juliana MCCUTCHEN
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(1780 - ....) |
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Mother: ALESIA de HARLEY |
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_ADAM PESHALL _______|
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_HAMON de PESHALL ___|
| (1340 - 1399) |
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| _ROBERT de HARLEY _____+
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| _ROBERT de HARLEY ___|
| | (1340 - 1375) m 1356|
| | |_MARGARET de BROMPTON _
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|_ALESIA de HARLEY ___|
(1359 - 1389) |
| _ROBERT CORBET M.P.____+
| | (1304 - 1375) m 1329
|_JOAN CORBET ________|
(1342 - 1417) m 1356|
|_ELIZABETH le STRANGE _+
(1308 - 1381) m 1329
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Mother: Margaret TAYLOR |
I have taken this from the book The Mecklenberg Declaration of
Independence, May 20, 1775, and Lives of its Signers by George
W. Graham, MD. This book belonged to my great grandfather George
Washington Polk (1847-1924), and the book was published in 1905.
The following sketches of the delegates to the convention at
Charlotte are copied almost verbatim form Draper's manuscript
work upon the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, preserved
in the Thwait Library at Madison, Wisconsin:
Gen. Thomas Polk
The original name of the ancestors of the Polks of Mecklenburg
was Muirhead, whence it was changed to Pulloak, then to
Pollock-which by obvious transition, assumed its present-as is
evident by the will of Magdalene Polk, dated 1723, preserved
among the records of the Orphans' Court of Somerset County,
Maryland.
The traditions of the Greeks and Romans were not more quaint and
curious as to the origin of their heroes than are those of many
of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who early migrated to the New
World. The Polks have had handed down to them a tradition
running in this wise:
On a certain great occasion, away back in the misty past, a king
of Scotland was marching at the head of an immense procession,
when a small oak shrub appeared directly in fromt of His
Majesty, to which one of the king's attendants, by the name of
Muirhead, a man of great physical strength, sprang forward, and
with a Herculean effort, tore it up by the roots and bore it out
of the way. Such an act of gallantry propted the king to order a
halt, when he knighted Muirhead upon the spot, and changed his
name to Pulloak- pull-oak. Another tradition is related of the
same person. An enormous size and vicious wild boar inhabited
that region, a terror to all who came within his range. A reward
was offered by the king to any one who would rid the country of
the dreaded monster. Pulloak determined to try it single-handed.
Armed only with a bow and arrows, he sallied forth on the
dangerous adventure. One version of the story is that when the
wild boar discovered his pursuer he rushed toward the bold
hunter, who climbed an oak tree, and from its branches he shot
the fierce animal. Another version of the story is that, pursued
by the enraged boar, Pulloak sprang through an old church
window, the boar after him; but Pulloak instantly darted out of
the door and shut it quickly, and managed to close the window,
and then quietly returned home. His neighbors were not a little
surprised at his safe return. In response to their expressions
of astonishment, he affected equal surprise, saying with
nonchalance, truly a bitof a pig had the hardihood to run at
him, when he seized it by the tail and threw it into the church
window, where they might go and satisfy themselves of the fact.
At length some of the more courageous of the number sallied
forth to see the game of the forester, and were astonished
beyond measure when they discovered the "bit of a pig" was none
other than the dreaded wild boar for whose taking off the king
had offered the large reward. Some of those present argued that
Pulloak was more than a Sampson, and must have been imbued with
supernatural aid. And as an additional evidence of his
fearlessness, he boldly advanced, and shot the enraged animal
through one of the windows.
The hero of the exploit, as the tradition goes, kept his own
counsel and it was many a long year before he saw fit to divulge
the manner of his getting so dangerous a beast into the church
alone and sigle handed. The coat of arms of the Polk family is
no doubt derived from the latter tradition-"Polloak, Bar't.
Scotch; a boar, passant, pierced by an arrow." Motto: Audacter
et strenne- Boldly and readily. The boar is represented with
elevated bristles and angered mien, transfixed with an arrow.To
aid in ameliorating the natural turbulence of the Irish
character, James I encouraged a large emigration into Ireland,
and among those who settled in that part of Ulster known as
Donnegal, was the family of Pollocks. Robert, a son of the elder
Pollock, took an active part in the wars against Charles I and
fought side by side with Cromwell against the Royalists, under
Rupert. The powder-horn worn by Robert Pollock during the civil
wars is now in possession of Col. W. H. Pollock.
The book goes on, but I must stop.
Your Polk cousin, Sally Brace
- Jack Ciaccia , Roots Web
Children:
2 Thomas Jr. Polk b: 1755 d: 8 SEP 1781
2 Ezekial Polk d: JAN 1793
2 William Polk b: 9 JUL 1758 d: 14 JAN 1834 + Griselda Gilchrist
b: 24 OCT 1768 d: 2 OCT 1799 + Sarah Hawkins b: 10 MAR 1784 d:
10 DEC 1843
2 Charles Polk b: 1762 d: 1830 + Mary Alexander
2 Margaret Polk + Nathaniel Alexander
2 Mary Polk b: 1761 + Daniel or David BROWN b: 1761
2 Martha Polk b: 1763 + Ephraim Brevard
2 James Green Polk b: 1764 d: 1798
_ROBERT BRUCE POLK POLLOCK "the Immigrant"_+
| (1625 - 1703) m 1650
_William Bruce POLK __________|
| (1662 - 1740) m 1694 |
| |_Magdalen TASKER __________________________+
| (1634 - 1727) m 1650
_William POLK _______|
| (1705 - 1753) m 1724|
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| |_Nancy Locke (Owens) KNOX ____|
| (1662 - ....) m 1694 |
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|--Thomas POLK
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| _James TAYLOR "the Immigrant"_|
| | (1683 - ....) |
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|_Margaret TAYLOR ____|
(1704 - 1763) m 1724|
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|_Hannah WILLIAMS _____________|
(1680 - ....) |
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Mother: Columbia Ann GILLIAM |
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_Samuel D. SEARS ______|
| (1840 - ....) m 1871 |
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|--Bessie Hammer SEARS
| (1878 - ....)
| _Richard Curd GILLIAM _+
| | (1771 - 1855) m 1798
| _Spencer GILLIAM ______|
| | (1805 - 1879) m 1839 |
| | |_Mary ROBERTSON _______
| | (1775 - ....) m 1798
|_Columbia Ann GILLIAM _|
(1847 - ....) m 1871 |
| _Henry Guerrant DUPUY _+
| | (1788 - 1815) m 1809
|_Mary Elizabeth DUPUY _|
(1810 - 1890) m 1839 |
|_Sarah TAYLOR _________
(.... - 1849) m 1809
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