William MASSEYAge: 98 years1743–1841
- Name
- William MASSEY
- Given names
- William
- Surname
- MASSEY
Birth | 1743 |
Birth of a daughter #1 | Elizabeth MASSEY |
Birth of a brother | James MASSEY 1744 (Age 12 months) Publication: From Yates Publishing, CD #403 |
Death of a father | Joseph MASSEY 1760 (Age 17 years) Shared note: (Will) |
Alt. Marriage | Elizabeth RIVES — View this family 1762 (Age 19 years) Publication: University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina, © 1981 Citation details: V. III, p. 485 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Marriage | Elizabeth RIVES — View this family April 1763 (Age 20 years) |
Death of a brother | James MASSEY July 1763 (Age 20 years) |
Birth of a son #2 | William Andrew MASSEY about 1765 (Age 22 years) |
Birth of a son #3 | George MASSEY 1771 (Age 28 years) |
Birth of a son #4 | Joseph MASSEY 1773 (Age 30 years) |
Birth of a son #5 | Benjamin MASSEY 1775 (Age 32 years) |
Residence | 1800 (Age 57 years) Source: HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1800, 1820, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M32 Roll: 50 Page: 8 Quality of data: primary evidence Source: HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1810, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 7 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Birth of a grandson #1 | Thomas MASSEY December 22, 1801 (Age 58 years) |
Birth of a grandson #2 | William Massey GREER October 25, 1806 (Age 63 years) |
Birth of a grandson #3 | James Madison MASSEY 1808 (Age 65 years) |
Birth of a grandson #4 | Joseph MASSEY January 9, 1809 (Age 66 years) Source: Camp, Francis Citation details: e-mail, 30 Nov 2000, 1:53 AM Quality of data: secondary evidence |
Death of a wife | Elizabeth RIVES before 1810 (Age 67 years) Source: HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1810, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 7 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Birth of a granddaughter #5 | Elizabeth A. MASSEY July 10, 1811 (Age 68 years) Source: HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1860, Lafayette PO, Upshur, Texas, Series: M653 Roll: 1306 Page: 443B Quality of data: primary evidence Source: Rootsweb |
Birth of a grandson #6 | William Henry MASSEY April 3, 1813 (Age 70 years) Source: Rootsweb |
Death of a son | George MASSEY 1815 (Age 72 years) |
Birth of a grandson #7 | Allen Alonzo MASSEY February 20, 1817 (Age 74 years) |
Birth of a grandson #8 | Joseph Benjamin MASSEY 1820 (Age 77 years) Source: HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1860, Green Leaf, Desoto, Mississippi, Series: M653 Roll: 581 Page: 97 Quality of data: primary evidence Source: HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1870, MISSISSIPPI , DESOTO, ARKABUTLA P O, Series: M593 Roll: 728 Page: 152 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Death of a brother | Thomas MASSEY August 1827 (Age 84 years) Source: Massey Genealogy Addendum Publication: Pub. by Massey Family, Fort Worth, TX, 1979 Citation details: 370 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Death of a son | Joseph MASSEY 1836 (Age 93 years) |
Death of a grandson | William Massey GREER September 16, 1839 (Age 96 years) |
Death | 1841 (Age 98 years) Shared note: Is this date correct? I have been unable to find him in census records after 1810. |
Burial | Publication: (from Ancestry.com search 28 Apr 2001) |
Unique identifier | 50A02A5336664F46904E936EDBA562B71669 yes |
Last change | October 24, 2013 – 20:16 |
Family with parents |
father |
Joseph MASSEY Birth: about October 1705 — Virginia, USA Death: 1760 — Greensville County, Virginia, USA |
mother |
Elizabeth (UNKNOWN) Death: |
Marriage: 1738 — |
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John MASSEY Birth: about 1737 Death: |
4 years elder brother |
Thomas MASSEY Birth: 1740 Death: August 1827 — Rockingham County, North Carolina, USA |
4 years himself |
William MASSEY Birth: 1743 — Virginia, USA Death: 1841 — Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA |
2 years younger brother |
James MASSEY Birth: 1744 — Virginia, USA Death: July 1763 |
brother |
Joseph MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Sarah MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Amy MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Agnes MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Rebecca MASSEY Death: |
sister |
Mary MASSEY Death: |
sister |
Winnifred MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Lucy MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Frances MASSEY Birth: Death: |
sister |
Elizabeth MASSEY Birth: Death: |
Family with Elizabeth RIVES |
himself |
William MASSEY Birth: 1743 — Virginia, USA Death: 1841 — Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA |
wife |
Elizabeth RIVES Birth: between 1741 and 1749 — Virginia, USA Death: before 1810 |
Marriage: April 1763 — Virginia, USA |
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son |
Robert MASSEY Death: |
daughter |
Polly MASSEY Death: |
daughter |
Jane MASSEY Death: |
daughter |
Temperance MASSEY Death: |
son |
William Andrew MASSEY Birth: about 1765 Death: |
7 years son |
George MASSEY Birth: 1771 Death: 1815 — York County, South Carolina, USA |
3 years son |
Joseph MASSEY Birth: 1773 Death: 1836 — Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA |
daughter |
Elizabeth MASSEY Birth: Brunswick County, Virginia, USA Death: |
son |
Benjamin MASSEY Birth: 1775 Death: July 16, 1846 — Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA |
James MASSEY + Elizabeth RIVES |
younger brother |
James MASSEY Birth: 1744 — Virginia, USA Death: July 1763 |
wife |
Elizabeth RIVES Birth: between 1741 and 1749 — Virginia, USA Death: before 1810 |
Marriage: about 1758 — |
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3 years niece |
Charlotte MASSEY Birth: about 1760 Death: |
4 years nephew |
James MASSEY Birth: between 1760 and 1763 — Virginia, USA Death: after 1830 |
3 years nephew |
Henry MASSEY Birth: about April 1763 Death: 1836 |
Alt. Marriage | Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives Publication: University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina, © 1981 Citation details: V. III, p. 485 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Residence | HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1800, 1820, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M32 Roll: 50 Page: 8 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Residence | HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1810, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 7 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Burial | Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol. 3, p. --Serial: 12978, Volume: 1 Publication: (from Ancestry.com search 28 Apr 2001) |
Note | The Siege of Charleston by the British Fleet and Army under the Command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, which terminated with the Surrender of that Place on the 12th of May, 1780 Publication: J. Munsell Publisher, Albany, 1867, published on the Internet, Heritagequest Online, http://www.heritagequestonline.com, © 1999-2005 Proquest Information and Learning Company Citation details: p. 203-205 Quality of data: secondary evidence |
Note | HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1800, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M32 Roll: 50 Page: 8 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Note | HeritageQuest Online Publication: http://persi.heritagequestonline.com , © 1999-2004 Citation details: census 1810, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 7 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Note | Stub Entries to Indents Issued in Payment of Claims Against South Carolina Growing Out of the Revolution Publication: Printed for the Historical Commission of South Carolina by the State Company, Columbia, SC, © 1915 Citation details: Books O-Q, p. 7 and p. 185 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Note | Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives Publication: University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina, © 1981 Citation details: V. III, p. 485 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Note | Historical Registrer of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April 1775, to December, 1783 Publication: The Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, Inc., Washington, D. C., © 1914 Citation details: p. 384 Quality of data: primary evidence |
Death | Is this date correct? I have been unable to find him in census records after 1810. |
Shared note | William lived in Brunswick-Greensville County in Virginia.
During this time he married his brother's widow.
Around 1772-1773, William Massey moved from Virginia to the Waxhaws in Camden District, SC which later became Lancaster County, SC. He settled on Waxaw Creek to east from Catawba River immediately west from Union County, NC. This would be about two miles from where Andrew Jackson was born in 1767. He obtained at least 383 acres of land, and the 1830 census indicates his ownership of nineteen slaves. William Massey was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolutionary War and a member of the second Provincial Congress of South Carolina in 1775-1776, representing the District Eastward of Wateree River. He was also a representative in the First General Assemly in 1776. In the Revolutionary War he was the Deputy Muster Master General for South Carolina. He was captured in the occupation of Charleston and interned on a British ship in Charleston Harbor (or one record says that he was sent to St. Augustine) for most of the war years. The Seige of Charleston ... includes his name in a list of prisoners taken at Charleston and placed on board the Lord Sandwich ship on the 28th of August, 1780 after the fall of Charleston on 12 May 1780. According to this source (which is taken from Rivington's Royal Gazette, no. 415, 20 Sep 1780) they were taken to St. Augustine where they were paroled. According to this source they were poorly treated, and although it would have improved their condition, they were not even allowed to fish to relieve their impoverished conditions or to fill their time. In June 1781 there was an exchange of prisoners, and they were released and delivered at Philadelphia.
In 1788, as a delegate for the District Eastward of Wateree River, he cast his vote against ratification of the federal Constitiution. He also served as a tax inquirer and collector in 1777-1787 for the District Eastward of Wateree River. (Biographical Directory...)
In addition to rearing his own children and those of his wife and his brother, he became the guardian of Frances Rives, his wife's youngest sister. There is information concerning his descendants in the Rock Hill S. C. library--or at least there was at the time that Judge Massey wrote his books. (Much of this information is found in the Massey series of books written by Judge Massey).
He made claims in regard to his service in the Revolutionary War which are recorded in the Stub Entries to Indents Issued in Payment of Claims Against South Carolina Growing out of the Revolution. Number 28, book O says that 19 January 1785 he was issued 22 punds 10/ Sterling pay as Muster Master General for the State of South Carolina in 1779 and 1780. The interest was 1...10...10. Number 454, book P indicates that on 6 May 1785 he was issued 98 pounds, 5s 4 3/4 sterling for Sundries for Contls. and militia in 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783 as per one account in whole and one in part audited. The annual interest was 6 pounds,, 17,, 6 1/4.
The following information came from the Library of Congress website, http://memory.loc.gov search for William Massey, searched 9 July 2003:
Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 8 September 19, 1777 - January 31, 1778
Henry Laurens to John Rutledge
Dear Sir York 19th October 1777 I had the honour of writing to Your Excellency the 16th by the hands of Mr. G.A. Hall an abstract of which shall be Subjoined & inclosed a duplicate of the Resolve therein referred to thus doubled from an opinion that the bearer hereof will reach Charles Town 2 or 3 days earlier than Mr. Hall & in order that not an hour may be lost in a matter which Congress is pleased to declare to be of great Importance. Besides the Resolve above mentioned Your Excellency will receive with this Seven more (1) which the President has desired me to forward upon my application to him for blank Commissions for Privateers, of these the President intimates he can at present Supply only fifteen, when they come the exact number shall be mentioned.
The Board of War have entered into Resolves by which 'tis intended to take General Howe out of the Brigadiers List & to call him to General Washington's head Quarters. This arrangement will probably afford Satisfaction to the General & at the Same time remove from our State a bone of contention, every body here as far as I have been able to learn are Surprized his Command in South Carolina has given offence to any one.(2) In the Same paper Your Excellency will See that Mr. Massey is recommended for Dep. Muster Master General for South Carolina & Georgia. The Resolves are to be reported to
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OCTOBER 19, 1777...
As Laurens predicted, Congress appointed William Massey to this post on October 20. JCC, 9:823.
Journals of the Continental Congress --MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1777
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Resolved, That Mr. William Massey be appointed deputy muster master general to the continental troops raised or to be raised in the States of South Carolina and Georgia.
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1781
The committee of the week made report; Whereupon, The Committee of the week beg leave to report, That the Memorial of William Massey for a year's pay as Deputy Comr. General of Musters; and the petition of Capt. Lieut Adam
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Hoops respecting his exchange and leave of absence; be respectively referred to the Board of War.
9th. August 1781
Ordered, That a letter, of 8th, from William Massay; and A memorial of Captain Lieutenant Adam Hoops be referred to the Board of War.2
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1782
Sir, If Congress approve the measure they will please to resolve, That the Secretary at War issue his warrant on the Paymaster General for the sum of one hundred and forty dollars in favor of William Massey, Esq., late Deputy Muster Master, in part of one year's pay granted to him and the several officers of the Department
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of Commissary General of Musters on the derangement of that Department.
(Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, II, folio 143. It is written upon a letter, of October 14, from John Pierce, and was read on this day.)
Journals of the Continental Congress --FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1781
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A report from the Board of War was read; Whereupon,
At a Board of War September 27th. 1781.
The Board having taken into consideration the Memorial of William Massey late Deputy Commissary of Musters in the Southern Department, and are of opinion that he is entitled to the benefit of the resolution of Congress of the 12th January 1780.
That the Memorial of William Massey be referred to the Superintendent of Finance, who is hereby directed to order an adjustment of the Memorialist's account for pay due under the act of Congress of the 12th January 1780, as Deputy Commissary of musters, to the end that the sum due may be paid, when the state of the public finances will admit.
Ordered, That the memorial of William Massey be referred to the comptroller, in order that the accounts of the memorialist for pay due under the act of Congress, of the 12 January, 1780, as deputy commissary of musters, may be properly adjusted; and in the meanwhile that the Board of War draw an order on the paymaster in his favour for three months' pay.1
(Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 148, II, folios 323 and 326.)
Census:
1800, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M32 Roll: 50 Page: 8
Will Massay, 1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 0, 17
There are also an Elias Massay, Ann Massay, Rachel Massey, and several families bearing the Hood name. Any relationship?
1810, NO TWP LISTED, LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA , Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 7
Wm. Massey, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 12 (His wife is not listed, perhaps a son was living with him, aged bet. 26-45 - if so, who was this person? There was one other person listed, as well as 12 slaves.)
In 1820, where is he? He does not appear to be on the census for Lancaster county, unless he is residing in someone else's household or is misnamed. Also, there is a Josiah Massey appearing on some census records near the family, and an Ezekiah Massey appears near the family in 1820. Are these men family, and if so, where do they fit in? |