ALLISON FAMILY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
WALES
PRIOR TO DEPARTING FOR THE AMERICAS. THEY WERE STRICT BAPTISTS FROM THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND WHO FELL IN
WITH
THE BAPTISTS IN THE AMERICAS. THEY POSSIBLY CAME IN TO THE AMERICAS THROUGH
PHILIDELPHIA OR AMBOY OR NEW YORK
CITY
AROUND 1750 OR 1760. SAMUEL AND JONATHAN ALLISON WERE PROBABLY BORN IN AMERICA
SOON THEREAFTER. (THEY MAY HAVE
BEEN
BORN IN WARM SPRINGS, VIRGINIA AS PER THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN W.ALLISON, GRANDSON
OF SAMUEL ALLISON, SR.
however
I don't think this is correct though)., MAKING SAMUEL AROUND 50 YEARS OLD WHEN
HE LIVED IN MASON COUNTY,
KENTUCKY
AND 68 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.THERE ARE
CONFLICTING STORIES AS TO WHERE
SAMUEL
V.ALLISON, SR.WAS BORN.ACCORDING TO THE OBITUARY OF JOSEPH PERRY ALLISON, A
GRANDSON OF SAMUEL
ALLISON,
SAMUEL ALLISON WAS RAISED IN NEW JERSEY.A HISTORICAL MAP OF NEW JERSEY SHOWS
THAT THE SCOTCH-IRISH
SETTLED
NORTH OF TRENTON.THE BAPTIST CHURCH LATER BROKE WITH A GROUP CALLED THE
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH A/K/A THE
OLD
SCHOOL BAPTISTS.THE BAPTISTS HAD A CHURCH WHICH WAS NORTH OF TRENTON IN
HOPEWELL, NEW JERSEY IN MERCER COUNTY,
NEW
JERSEY (2ND OLDEST PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH IN AMERICA).PERHAPS THIS IS WHERE
SAMUEL AND JONATHAN
ALLISON
WERE BORN AND RAISED.HOPEWELL WAS A CENTER FOR BAPTIST MISSIONARIES TO LEARN
THEIR TRADE. THE OLDEST
PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST CHURCH IN AMERICA IS THE WELSH TRACT CHURCH. IT IS TWO MILES FROM
NEWARK, DELAWARE, IN NEW
CASTLE
COUNTY, DELAWARE (THIS IS ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHILADELPHIA).MAYBE THEY
WERE RAISED THERE.(THERE IS
FAMILY
TRADITION THAT THEY CAME FROM WALES, PERHAPS IN ACTUALITY THE ALLISONS WERE
ASSOCIATED WITH THE WELSH
TRACT
CHURCH, RATHER THAN WALES.) WE KNOW THAT AFTER THE REV.WAR (1783) THEY MOVED.
MOODYS
WERE FROM THE AREA NEAR COWPENS (THE BATTLE OF COWPENS), WHICH WAS JUST TO THE
NORTH OF THIS IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.THE
MOODYS MARRIED INTO THE ALLISON FAMILY WHEN REBECCA MOODY MARRIED FREDERICK
ALLISON, SAMUEL ALLISON'S
SON.THE
HEADS OF FAMILY CENSUS IN SOUTH CAROLINA FOR 1790 FOR LAURENS COUNTY, DISTRICT
96, SHOWS A SAMUEL
ALLISON
WITH WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE CORRECT NUMBER OF CHILDREN FOR THAT TIME IF FOUR
OF THEIR SONS WERE BORN ON
OR
AFTER 1790.HOWEVER THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY RON HERD ABOUT THE SAMUEL
ALLISON FAMILY FROM LAURENS COUNTY
FOR
THIS TIME PERIOD WOULD INDICATE THAT THIS WAS NOT OUR SAMUEL ALLISON WHO LIVED
IN LAURENS COUNTY WHO WAS
MENTIONED
IN THE 1790 CENSUS.
SAMUEL'S
SON, WAS BORN IN WARM SPRINGS, VIRGINIA IN 1798. PERHAPS SAMUEL ALLISON, SR.,
AFTER LEAVING NEW
JERSEY/PENNSYLVANIA
AFTER 1783, ENDED UP IN WARM SPRINGS IN 1798 AND THEN IN MASON COUNTY KENTUCKY
IN 1800 (AS PER
THE
MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX ROLLS). IN 1806 THE INDIAN LANDS ACROSS FROM
VINCENNES WERE PLACED UNDER A TREATY
WITH
THE PINKASHAW TRIBES.THE ALLISONS MOVED INTO THE AREA IN 1809. THIS WAS ABOUT
THE TIME THAT THE ILLINOIS
TERRITORY
WAS MADE A TERRITORY.THAT IS PROBABLY WHY THEY SETTLED ON THE ILLINOIS SIDE OF
THE RIVER. ILLINOIS DID
NOT
BECOME A STATE UNTIL 1818 SO DEEDS WERE NOT FILED UNTIL MUCH LATER, ALTHOUGH
SOME LAWRENCE COUNTY/CRAWFORD
COUNTY
DEEDS WERE FILED AROUND 1814 TO 1816 BY THE ALLISONS. THE ALLISONS LIVED ALONG
THE BORDER OF THE
LAWRENCE
COUNTY/CRAWFORD COUNTY LINE. AT ONE TIME THEY WERE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE
BOUNDARIES WERE SUBSEQUENTLY
CHANGED
TO PLACE SOME OF THE ALLISONS IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. BY A FAMILY
TRADITION, AS STATED BY RON HERD,
SAMUEL
ALLISON AND JONATHAN ALLISON MAY HAVE HAD A BROTHER NAMED JOSEPH ALLISON.
ACCORDING TO RON HERD, FAMILY
TRADITION
HAS IT THAT JOSEPH ALLISON'S FATHER WAS ALSO NAMED JOSEPH ALLISON. IT IS A
POSSIBILITY THAT JOSEPH
ALLISON
MAY HAVE HAD 5 SONS. ONE WHO COULD HAVE BEEN NAMED EDWARD ALLISON AND ONE WHO
COULD HAVE BEEEN NAMED SAMUEL
H.
ALLISON. BOTH OF THESE NAMES APPEAR OF RECORD IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, AS DOES A
DANIEL ALLISON (WHICH COULD BE
EITHER
SAMUEL V.ALLISON, SR.'S SON OR JOSEPH ALLISON'S SON). IT IS SAID THAT JOSEPH
CAME FROM KENTUCKY AFTER 1820
AND
CAME TO LIVE WITH HIS SON.COULD THIS SON BE SAMUEL H.ALLISON? IS IT EDWARD
ALLISON?JOSEPH SEEMED TO
TRANSACT
BUSINESS WITH EDWARD ALLISON (IN THE 1820S) AND NOT SAMUEL H.ALLISON.THERE WAS
A JOSEPH ALLISON ON THE
MASON
COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX ROLLS IN 1800 AND 1810 SO THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT
JOSEPH COULD HAVE COME TO ILLINOIS
IN
THE 1820S. JOSEPH WAS STILL IN THE 1810 CENSUS OF MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY AFTER
SAMUEL LEFT FOR ILLINOIS.
WENT
SOUTHWEST INTO WHAT IS NOW AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. AT STAUTON, VIRGINIA. THIS
ROAD CROSSES WITH THE PAMUNKEY
NEW
RIVER ROAD WHICH GOES WEST NORTHWEST THROUGH PRESENT DAY BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
WHICH IS THE LOCATION OF
WARM
SPRINGS , VIRGINIA.THE NEW RIVER ROAD WAS THE FAMOUS JAMES RIVER TURNPIKE WHICH
RAN TO KANAWHA
COUNTY
WEST VIRGINIA (PRESENT DAY CHARLESTON) AND THEN SPLIT ONE BRANCH FOLLOWING THE
MOUTH OF THE
KANAWHA
RIVER AT PT.PLEASANT, MASON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER FROM
GALLIPOLIS, OHIO
IN
GALIA COUNTY AND INDIAN TERRITORY IN 1780.(NOTE: THE OTHER BRANCH WENT OVERLAND
THROUGH TEAYS VALLEY
AND
JOINED THE OHIO RIVER AT THE MOUTH OF THE GUYANDOTTE RIVER, PRESENT DAY CABELL
COUNTY)
RIDE
WEST OF GALIAPOLIS, DOWN THE OHIO RIVER TO MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY, WHICH IS NEAR
WASHINGTON, MASON COUNTY,
KENTUCKY,
IS WHERE THE ALLISONS WERE IN 1800.UPON LEAVING THE WASHINGTON AREA, GOING
THROUGH MAYSVILLE,
KENTUCKY
AND CONTINUING SOUTHWEST DOWN THE OHIO RIVER, THE ALLISONS COULD HAVE COME UPON
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. AT
LOUISVILLE,
THE BUFFALO TRACE ROAD (AN OLD BUFFALO PATH) IS PICKED UP WHICH LEADS ALL THE
WAY INTO VINCENNES,
INDIANA
AND OVER INTO LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
LINKS TO ALLISON FAMILY MATERIALS
Allison Family Pedigree Chart - Genealogy.com