albemarle-callaway.com - Albemarle Co, Virginia to Callaway Co. Missouri, the Herring Family journey

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Last update 12/25/2011. If you have any information about the Herring, Carter, Simcoe/Simco, Wilks, Overton, Day, Fletcher, Hill, Sitton, Holt, Kemp, Craghead/Craighead, or Tatum, families, all originally from Virginia, later of Callaway County, Mo., the Allen family, originally from Pennsylvania, later of Callaway County, Mo., or the Carrington family originally from Maryland, later of Callaway County, Mo. please write to me. If you are seriously researching someone in my family line, please write to me fo

In 1825, searching for new land for their families, George Washington Herring Sr. and his cousin John B. Herring first came to Missouri. They scouted out the land, liked what they found and returned to Albemarle Co. Virginia. In the 1830's the Herring families began their trek from Albemarle County Virginia to Callaway County Missouri. From studying land plats, probate packets, and other records, we believe we have the order in which they came. 1831 - Benjamin Herring (brother of George Herring) Benjamin's

Click on any blue linked name below for more information about that person and their family. Benjamin Herring b: approx. 1740 (Revolutionary war veteran, given grant of land near Jefferson estate at Charlottesville, Va. after the war, we do not have proof of that yet, but have found reference to it in several old family papers.) Our research has not proved that Benjamin is the right name. We are still searching the Virginia records. We believe that it might have been John Benjamin, but do not have documents

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