Seth Isham Maness (1762 - abt. 1852)

Born 6 Feb 1762 in Bedford County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Fields) Maness — married about 1779 in North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died about 1852 at about age 89 in Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Maness Name Study.

Private Seth Maness served with North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Seth Maness is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A073377.

Seth was born in 1762 to William Maness born 1738^[1][2] Keziah Ophelia Brooks born 1740

Seth's timeline

• 1762 - is born in Bedford, Virginia.
• 1781 - age 19, served in Rev. War
• 1782 - age 20, son, Jacob, is born in North Carolina
• 1783 - age 21 and living in Moore, North Carolina (then Cumberland)^[3]
• 1790 - age 28 and living in Rowan, North Carolina
• 1795 - age 33 moving to Tennessee^[4]
• 1810 - age 48 and living in Hawkins, Tennessee^[5]
• 1840 - age 78 and living in Hawkins, Tennessee
• 1852 - age 90 died^[6]

Family Life

1840 Hawkins County, Tennessee

HEAD OF Household

Name Seth Manis (born 1762 WOULD BE 78) "Agriculture"

Free White Males: 70-80=1

Free White Females: 70-80=1 (PATSY FIELDS born 1763 would be 77)

Page 235

LINE #8

AND 8 LINES down the road IS

Anderson FIELDS: 10-15=1/15-20=2/40-50=1

FEMALES: 5-10=1/10-15=1/40-50=1

AND 5 more farms away is Clinton MANIS

1850 Hawkins county, Hawkins , Tennessee

Head of the Household #81

Nancy Manis, age 30 born in Tennessee

Margaret Manis, age 14 Tennessee

William Manis, age 12 Tennessee

Preston Manis, age 10 Tennessee

Edmund Manis, age 6 Tennessee

Dalzell Manis,age 4 Tennessee

Monroe Manis, age 1 Tennessee

Line Number: 3 --Image Number: 00258

Household #84 is: Susan Lawson age:35 and 6 children: Dalzell age:15

Next door house #80 is: Alice Manis age:56/ Eldridge age:16/ Webbey age 14.

House #79 is Jincey Manis age:37 and 4 children

See the attached image ^[7]

Marriage

Name: Seth Manis

Spouse: Susan Fields^[8][9]

Date: circa 1782

Place: Knoxville, Tennessee

Children

1. Vincent b:1780 Virginia Mar.:Rachel Hampton- Vincent/Rachel had at least 4 children: Silas Hale Maness (1805) Mar. Jane Bledsoe, Lazarus Lawson Mainous (1808) Mar. Rebecca Amanda Flanery, Absalom Mainus (1810) Mar. Martha Blankenbeckler, Juriah Maness 'Manace' (1815) Mar. William Johnson
2. Jacob Wilson Manes - b: 1782 Mar.: Mary Jane Lawson
3. William Manis - B: 1782 Mar.: Lydia Lawson
4. George Manes - b: 1785 Mar.: Melinda Lawson
5. James Manis b: 1787 Mar.: ?? Anna..
6. Jesse Manis - b: 1790 Mar.: Alice Lawson
7. Elizabeth Manis - b: 1794 Mar.: James Anderson Fields
8. John Manis - b: 1795 (??? ) Mar.:Celia Pettibone Nelson/ 2) ?? Margaret Oprah Hill
9. Temperance Manes - b:1800-1810 Mar.: John Gunther (Tempa is from the letter re: DAR Application) THIS STILL gives them 6 sons, and 2 daughters.

Since the Lawson families lived nearby 4 of the son married a LAWSON daughter.

Siblings

This list of children for William Sr/Keziah Brooks have no SOURCES listed to prove them.

1. William Manis b: 1738 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania
2. Josiah Mainer b: 1751
3. Meshach Maness b: 1759 in Colony, Laurel, Kentucky
4. Seth Maness b: 6 Feb 1762 in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia
5. Ambrose Maness b: 1763
6. Susannah Maness b: 1766 in Colony, Laurel, Kentucky
7. Abednego Maness b: 1770 in Colony, Laurel, Kentucky
8. Daniel Maness b: 1770 in Robbins, Moore, North Carolina
9. Sarah Maness b: 10 Apr 1780 in Moore, North Carolina, United States
10. William Nathan Maness b: 20 Aug 1782 in Moore, North Carolina, United States
11. James Maness b: 1784 in Moore, North Carolina, United States
12. Judith Maness b: 1797 in Moore, North Carolina, United States

Her Sources except for the census records that have been found on familysearch.org there are no actual sources listed, only the Ancestry.com

Military Service

He fought in the American Revolutionary War. He raised a family in Hawkins county, Tennessee.

Name: MANIS, SETH ---Ancestor #: A073377 ^[10]

Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE

Birth: 2- -1762 BEDFORD CO VIRGINIA

Death: ANTE 3- -1849 HAWKINS CO TENNESSEE

Pension Number: *S2739 --Service Source: *S2739

Service Description: 1) CAPT WILLIAMS, COL BUTLER

Comments: 1) EL - JACOB MANES MARRIED MARY LAWSON, NOT MARY JANE BEVELLE. DATACF. 1/2018

Residence: By: 1) County: CUMBERLAND CO-ENL - State: NORTH CAROLINA

Spouse: PATSY FIELD

The records of a court hearing, held in Hawkins County, Tenn. June 7, 1832 in order for Seth Manis to Obtain a Revolutionary War Pension shows the Seth was born February, 1762, in Bedford County Va.^[11]

We do know that Seth was there on Sept. 1,1780, at the age of 18, for that was when he entered the Service of his county.

Another record shows that Seth was still drawing his pension of $20.00 per annul in 1840.

Declaration of Seth Manis in order to obtain the benifits of the Act of Congress of the 7th June,1832. STATE OF TENNESSEE) HAWKINS COUNTY)

On the 24th day of November,1835, personally appeared in open court Seth Manis, resident of Hawkins county and State of Tennessee, age 73 and 9 months who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declatation in order to obtain the benifit the provision made by the act of Congress passes June 7th,1832.

That he enter the service of the United States in the year 1780, the first of September, under the command of Captain Williams in the regiment of Col. Casswell in Moore County, State of North Carolina.

"We met at Bar Creek, a tributary stream of Deep River, I was drafted in the service. We march for the poupose of intercepting small parties of Tories and British which were going through the county and doing mischief. We went on through Chatham County and some other Counties which I do not recollect. We crossed Cape Fear River twice in our route, we went on on towards Williamington. We marched a Southwest course marched were outling Tories near Peedee River when we met with one Fannin, at a place called Baties Bridge. We, in the action, had to retreat. We collected together after the Battle and marched towards Moore County where we arrived about the first of January, 1781. I served in the capacity of Private. I was gone four months." "I volunteered myself again first of February,1781 under Captain Williams and Col. Butler to go after Fannin and his men. The report was he was a going to attack Hillsborough. I went out of Moore County, State of North Carolina and marched for Hillsbourgh. We attacked Fannin at Lindsy Mill where we had a sharp action with Him. We retreated and we did not take him nor any of his men. We recruted out forces ans still cautiously pursued him and his men on down towards Willington until our Col. thought it dangerous to follow him any further. We returned to Hillsborough, lay there for sometime, scouted about through the County after Tories and guarding the Town and neighborhood. We then marched Tories and guarding the town and neighborhood. We then marched for Moore County. We arrived home first of May,1781. I received no discharge, was dismissed and returned home, being gone four months." I served in the capacity of private sometime in the month of September,1781, I think about the middle as well as I now recollect. I volunteered myself again under Captain Williams and Col. Butler to march to Yorktown against the British. We marched on to Hillsborough where we were stationed in waiting for Levies to come and join us but, while we lay there, we received news that Cornwallis surrendered and we did not go. We then marched back and I was discharged, being gone one month and never was out anymore."

This declarant says he always served with an embodied Corps, called into service by compitent authority, that he was either in the field, on march, or in Camp and that for time during in the field, on march, or in Camp and that for the time during which the service was performed he was not imploied in any civil pursuit.

This Declarant says he has no documentary evidence of his service nor knows of no one who can prove the same by. The Clergyman who presides over the Church to which he belongs is in another County and at some considerable distance, so he can not without a great deal of (trouble-?) procure one to sign his declaration.

He hereby relinquishes every claim to to a pension or annuity whatever exerpt the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any state whatever. "

Seth Manes also appears on an 1842 census of pensioners at which time he was living in Hawkins County, Tennessee.^[12]

All below and to the "Sketch on Seth's grandson..." moved to the FREE SPACE

Family Sketch

The biographical sketch on Seth's grandson, Dalzel Manis, shows that Seth and his wife both died at the age of 90, putting the date of Seth's death in the year 1852, and his wife Patsy, in the year 1853. Both are buried on the North side of Clinch Mountain.

Excerpts from letter written by Samuel Jasper Manes to Jesse D Gustin in 1920. "Grandfather Seth Manes was in the Revolutionary War."

"Grandfather Manes had 6 boys. His name was Seth. Grandmothers name was Patsy Fields. My father’s name was Jacob, then William, John, George, James, and Jesse." "Fathers brothers, all but George, lived and died in Tenn. George got imminsley rich and died in Searcy County, Arkansas." "My grandfather Seth Manes, was very peculiar man-had his price on everything. I remember his price on corn was 50 cents, no difference how low it got nor how high it got, just 50 cents was all he would take." "After a few years, he had stored up a big lot of corn and a dry year came. One day, ten wagons drove up, drawn by two yoke of oxen. Each had come about 75 miles after corn. That was quite a distance over the rough roads of Tennessee (approx.1795). Grandfather told them they could not buy his corn. They insisted that they had come a long way and care nothing for the price and had the money to pay him. He said, "I know you have the money, and that is just why you can't have my corn. My price for corn is 50 cents per bushel, n more no less, but i have neibours here that haven't any money and they can't buy corn just anywhere like you men that have money, and I am going to save the corn for them away and sold all his corn to the poor neighbors on credit, and that trait has cropped out occasionally all along the line in the Manes Family.

Research Pages

• Maness- Bedford, Virginia - FREE SPACE page
• Maness Surname DNA Project For ANYONE with Maness ancestry! --137 members

Research Tennessee/North Carolina

Tennessee Land Grants^[13]

MOVED to the FREE SPACE

NEW son as per the Newspaper item & the Sheriff's Summons

My children

William F. James, Jr (me) 5th Cousins

Jane Carol Mainous (4th Cousins)

Arch Glass Mainous Arch Glass Mainous, Sr B1899/ Juanita Nell Cornett (3rd Cousins)

John Tyler Maness John Tyler Maness/Mainous B1849/ Elizabeth Ann Morgan (2nd Cousins)

Lazarus Lawson Maness Lazarus Lawson Maness/Mainous B1808/ Rebecca Flannary (1st cousins)

vincent Maness Vincent Maness (B1780?)/ Rachel Hampton (brother to Jesse James Manis)

Rev. Seth Isham Maness Rev. Seth Isham Maness (1762-1852)/ Susan “Patsy” Fields

William Jacob Maness Jr William Jacob Maness, Jr (1738-1832)/ Ophelia Lydia Brooks

William Jacob Maness Sr (1715-1787)/ Nalise ‘Nancy’ Williamson

Based on what you provided, you and I (and my mother and two uncles) share a most recent common ancestor of Rev. Seth Isham Maness.

Vincent (Seth’s son from whom I am descended) died earlier than he should. He moved from Hawkins County, Tn to Lee County, Virginia and had 4 children.

Sources

1. ↑ This info is from the rootsweb.com TREE of hunter-maness families  :by: Brenda Ann Ford
2. ↑ The Maness/Manes family had many children. Lots of DNA matches to prove his parents are William Manes Jr and grandfather is William Maness Sr.
3. ↑ 1783 -- Tax List, Cumberland County, NC
   Seth Menis listed $5 in Captain John Cox's District
4. ↑ moved to TN in 1795 based on birth location of children, Elizabeth and John
5. ↑ Seth Manes in the Tennessee, U.S., Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895
6. ↑ Seth died 1852 according to Dalzel Manis sketch
7. ↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDN-ZNL : 4 April 2020), Monroe Manis in household of Nancy Manis, Hawkins county, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States; citing family 81, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Affiliate Film Number: 882--Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)--Image Number: 00258 --Indexing Project (Batch) Number: N01134-6--GS Film Number: 444838--Digital Folder Number: 004206040
8. ↑ Jasper Manes' letter says his wife is "Patsy Fields"
9. ↑ Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852-1965 for Elizabeth Fields says Seth's wife is "Sousan"
10. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Seth Manis", Ancestor # A073377.
11. ↑ wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Name: dotsicle -- JONES BRADY COPELAND PERRY
12. ↑ United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPRB-X9JQ : 16 August 2019), Seth Manis, 1 Jun 1840; citing Military Service, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 005732444.
13. ↑ Tennessee Land Grants

• Find A Grave: Memorial #115684634
• 1790 United States Federal Census FamilySearch.Original data - First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gro-- Note: Page: Year: 1790; Census Place: , Moore, North Carolina; Roll: ; Image: Note: [1] Note: Text: Residence date: 1790Residence place: Moore, North Carolina, United States
• 1820 United States Federal Census by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourth Census of the United States, 1820; (National Archives Microfilm ublication M33, 142 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census-- Note: Page: Year: 1820; Census Place: , Moore, North Carolina; Roll: M33_80; Page: ; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1820usfedcenancestry&h=99966&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt-- Note: Text: Residence date: 1820Residence place: Moore, North Carolina, United States Repository: Name: Ancestry.com
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYL-TXX : 24 August 2015), Seth Manis, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 235, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 526; FHL microfilm 24,546.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch  : accessed 2015-08-06, entry for Seth I Manes, submitted by jdevaul2704684. ANCESTRAL FILE --Ancestral File Number--35F9-Z52
• The Wallace Family tree

Acknowledgements

1. downloaded by Corbin Cannon, Monday, August 4, 2014.
2. Thank you to Cuz' Robert Goode g-g-grandson of Easter Lorry Manis-Bradfield. He has given us several pieces of documents.