Isham FRANKLIN1,1,1,2,1,1
Notes
- Ison's name is found spelled in various ways: Isom, Issom, Isham, Esom.
"Surnames Franklin. Sizemore, Dees. My ggreatgrandfather was brother to Esom Franklin, son of Ephriam and Nancy Franklin"
-- Barbara Cook, Comment on an Ancestry Discussion Group, 26 January 2012
"Gardner Green owned land next to Isshom [Isham or Issom] Franklin, found on the Internet one time but can't find it now. Did I tell you on my kin's Guion Miller application, she listed my Thomas Franklin born around 1780 as dark complected, coarse black hair. She is the only one that had seen Thomas Jefferson Franklin. I believe Ephriam [sic] Franklin and Nancy were his parents. I have Ephriam Franklin's estate papers, and he names Thomas Bartley Henry and James Sizemore as heirs. James was married to Patience Franklin."
-- Barbara Cook, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 4 February 2012
"I find my Gardner Green family moving from 1770 Lunenburg Va to Surry County NC. And then on to the Old 96 District SC some as early as 1768 living on the Pacolet River, and Rocky River SC. They migrated south with the Weirs/Wares and Sizemore’s. I believe they came out of the Northern Neck of Virginia; Bristol Parish. My Green/Franklin family had over 200 NA applications filed with the Guion Miller. All Denied. The Sizemore’s had over 2000 applications filed and most denied. Several got through. Our families were brought to court in Lunenburg VA for living in adultery. I believe they were at one time Nottoway Indian and ruled by the Pamunkey 'Queen Betty.' ... Thomas Baker Franklin of Cherokee Ponds (Hopewell SC “Treaty of Hopewell 1785”) is connected to Isham Franklin, Shadrack Green and Gardner Green. The Reverend James Hembree was witness to Isham Franklin’s Estate and Nancy Franklin Administrator. Nancy Franklin also Administrator of Thomas Baker Franklin’s Estate. I noticed some interesting purchasers at Thomas’ estate: James Vann, and Edward Vann (Cherokee Indian)."
-- Troy Sims, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 18 September 2019
"In tracing family history, I have info that I am a relation to Gardner Green through Esom Franklin, born 26 October 1772. Unsure as to whether Esom was a son or a nephew. ... Esom was called a 'half-breed' by the local sheriff in McMinn County TN."
-- Tom Katstin, Ancestry Discussion Group, 05 September 2010
The following researcher provides information that suggests that Isham (Esom, Isom) Franklin Sr's wife was a daughter of Gardner Green.
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It's theorized that my gggg grandfather, Esom Franklin (b. 1772) may have been a grandson of Gardner Green. The hardest evidence I have for a connection is a SC plat record for an Esom Franklin that shows Gardner Green as a neighbor.
Here is what I have from other sources:
SCMAR, Vol. X, Summer 1982, No. 3, p.137
Book 3, page 483. 29 October 1772
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume X
Number 3, Summer, 1982
Some Migrations from Virginia to South Carolina (Continued from Vol. X, p.77)
SCMAR, Vol. X, Summer 1982, No. 3, p.137
John Busby of the Province of South Carolina [no county given] to William Sizemore of Mecklenburg County Province of Virginia consideration: 100 lbs current money of VA land: in Mecklenburg on both sides Great Buffalo Creek beginning on Henry Greens line to William Griffins line crossing Great Buffalow Greens corner to beginning [containing] 200 acres; Witnesses: Gardner Green, Edward (Me) Ware, John (I) Sizemore recorded 9 November 1772
From Pendleton Co. SC deeds: Book B, p. 253. 4 Nov. 1793. John Pickens to Edward Ware for £50. 100 acres on Branch of Great Rocky Cr. bd. on NE by Wm. Thompson, on SW by Samuel Houston, on SE by GARNER GREEN; granted to Pickens by William Moultrie.
(This land was again sold later on to John Martin. Garner [Gardner?] Green is still listed as bounding the land on the SE.)
-- Richard Heyduck, Ancestry Discussion Group Gardner Cherokee Green, 28 January 2001
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"My ggreatgrandfather Thomas was brother to Esom Franklin, son of Ephriam and Nancy Franklin."
-- Barbra Cook Dees, Ancestry Discussion Group, 01 June 2013
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Chapter VI
The Cherokees
The first that we hear of the Cherokees, after the Spanish invasion, is their connection with the early British settlers of Virginia. A powerful and extensive nation, they even had settlements upon the Appomattox river, and were allied by blood with the Powhattan tribe.
1623: The Virginians [ENGLISHMEN] drove them from that place, and they retreated to the head of the Holston river. Here, making temporary settlements, the Northern Indians compelled them to retire to the Little Tennessee river, where they established themselves permanently.
About the same time, a large branch of the Cherokees came from the territory of South Carolina, near Charleston, and formed towns upon the main Tennessee, extending as far as the Muscle Shoals. [editor's note: These were lower, or "Chickamauga" Cherokees.] They found all that region unoccupied, except upon the Cumberland, where resided a roving band of Shawnees. But the whole country bore evidence of once having sustained a large Indian population.
-- Albert James Pickett, History Of Alabama, Genealogy.comhttps://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/green/7832/
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