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RESEARCHER: Information provided to T.Mason on 19Feb2003 by Daniel Mahar [DMahar@CMINS.com]. "Family history has always claimed that Deborah Chisholm, the daughter of John D. Chisholm of Knoxville and later of the Western Band of the Cherokee married William Massengill the son of Hal Massengill. I have now discovered that John's first wife and mother of his children was Patty Massengill. Patty was awarded a divorce from Chisholm in 1799 in Tennessee and in 1800 married William Brent in Knox County. In 1801/2, she obtained a passport to remove to Mississippi Territory and one of her sons is found there in 1803 and her husband in New Feliciana, Spanish West Florida (now East and West Feliciana Parishes in Louisiana). Patty died in 1819 and as Louisiana was govern my French law, which provides the children with legal right to the estate and so they are all clearly identified in the records including Deborah who is the wife of William Massengill and living in Tennessee."
Additional message on 31 Mar 2003. "The Diosese of Baton Rouge covered the area from Baton Rouge North to Natchez. Apparently all marriage were registered through the RC Church, as some records show these Chisholms as Protestants. The parish records are published in several volumes and available in most libraries or through LDS. This area was controlled by French and Spanish at various times.
The Dioceses records show the marriage of three of the Chisholm children: Deborah, John R., and Joseph. Most of the records include the full name of the parents. Their mother is listed as a Massengill, which was a new discover for me. The records list her name as Ysabella, Elisabeth, and Patience in the records. Tennessee records call her "Patty" and she must have married John Chisholm around 1775. She divorced him in 1799 and married William Brent. Southern Passports show that she went to Natchez about 1802 with three of her children. Her other children appear to have married before her removal West or remained with her estranged husband. Patty and William Brent are well documented in Feliciana Parish, Louisiana which is just down river from Natchez. William Massengill is found in the records of this area selling slaves. Additionally, there are several of the Cobb relations in this area namely William and Arthur
Cobb. The children of the latter are also found in the Baton Rouge Diocese records."
Was a merchant and banker.
Lived in the Granger/Sunnyside area of Washington.
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 11 Jun 2006 by Misti Ann Adams. Baby Geraldine Martin born premature and only lived a few hours. The reason for her different last name is because the parent's George Ervin Williams and Geraldine "Gerry" Dorothy Martin didn't get married until just before the third child was born."