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Parker "Joseph Parker" [uncertain] Baggott aka Baggett [uncertain]

Born about 1770 in North Carolina

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Husband of Nancy Doty — married 13 Jun 1797 (to after 1800) in Rowan, North Carolina, United States

Husband of Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Baggott — married after 1800 [location unknown]

Husband of Mary Polly Lansdown — married 3 Feb 1814 in Washington, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Father of Lydia Lavinia (Baggott) Williams, Elisha Ruel Baggott Sr., Mary (Baggott) Stevenson, Martha A (Baggott) Cartin and John Baggott

Died after 1814 after about age 44 in Tennessee, United States

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Biography

PRELIMINARY NOTE: Many unsourced online family trees perpetuate the notion that Parker Baggott is the son of Lord William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot, of Blithfield Hall. There are no known sources to corroborate this assertion. Additionally, why would the son of a peer not be able to write his own name on his marriage bond? [See marriage to Nancy Doty.] However, DNA evidence does support a family connection to the descendants of John Baggett who settled in Isle of Wight, Virginia, in the 1600s. [See DNA evidence.] Owing to the unusual name, the Baggotts/Baggetts of America may be distantly related to the illustrious Bagot family of Staffordshire, England, but the connections are not documented and the chances of direct descendancy from the Barons or Baronets Bagot are slim.

Parker Baggott (sometimes Baggett, Baggit or Bagett) is the earliest known progenitor of the Baggott family of South Carolina. One possibly pertinent document lists him as Joseph Parker Baggett. [See marriage to Mary Polly Lansdown.]

Birth Date and Place

Parker's origins are uncertain. His son Elisha Ruel Baggott asserted on his 1880 US Census that his father was born in North Carolina.^[1]

Born About 1770. In the 1810 Census record of Pr Baggit in Orangeburgh, SC, Parker is represented by a tally mark as a Free White Male between 26 and 44 years of age. The census enumeration date of 4 Aug 1810 indicates Parker was born between 4 Aug 1765 and 4 Aug 1785. ^[2] The Rowan county, NC, marriage bond for Parker Baggett and Nancy Doty is dated 13 Jun 1797, which implies Parker was at least 21 by 1797. Thus, we deduce Parker was born between 1765 and 1775, or about 1770. ^[3]

First Marriage

1797. [Parker aged 27] Parker Baggett and John Doty filed a marriage bond in Rowan County, NC, on 13 June 1797 for the marriage of Parker Baggett and Nancy Doty. Parker's signature at the bottom was apparently supplied by the court recorder, since the X in "Parker X Baggett" is clearly labeled as "his mark." This may indicate that Parker was illiterate. At the least, he was unable or unwilling to sign his own name. John Doty is assumed to be the father of Nancy. John Doty was bondsman, "Jno Rogers" the witness. ^[4] In 1797, Rowan county included two other modern counties: Davie and Davidson.

1800. [Parker aged 30] The US Census of 4 Aug 1800 finds a Peter Bagett in Hillsborough District, Person County, NC. The manuscript record shows an attempt to modify the name Peter with a k-like mark resulting in the confusing name Peker, although it is obviously a modification of Peter.^[5]

1800 US Census

Head of Household: Peker Bagett

(1) Free White Male, 26-44, [b. 1766-1774] -- [Peker Bagett]

(1) Free White Female, 26-44 [b. 1766-1774]. -- [prob. Nancy Doty Bagett]

(1) Slave. [unnamed, unknown gender, unknown age]

Soon after the above cited US Census was taken on the enumeration date of 4 Aug 1800, Parker Baggott apparently left Nancy (Doty) Baggott. No record of their divorce has been found. There were no known children from this marriage. Parker did not take the enslaved person with him. Nancy Doty married, as her second marriage, Jacob Cline on 25 Apr 1804 in Rowan county, NC.

Second Marriage

Summer/Fall of 1800. Parker Baggott is believed to have married Lydia Lavinia Williams, presumed to be the young widow of John Williams by whom she had three young, orphaned children. Family lore reports the following Williams orphans: (1) Patience Williams, (2) John (or Thomas) Williams, and (3) Moses Williams. Lydia may have been the daughter of Moses Ernul of Craven County, NC. Daughter Lydia Ernul is named in Moses Ernul's Craven County, NC, will of 1774. [See Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Williams Baggott's profile.] A Craven county, NC, record of marriage between John Williams and Lydia Ernul on 20 Oct 1783 supports the idea that Lydia Lavinia Williams' maiden name was Ernul, as opposed to many unsourced online family trees which assume her maiden name was Williams. That Lydia's Williams boys were reputedly named John and Moses supports the idea that her first husband was John Williams and her father Moses Ernul. Lydia's first husband, John Williams, died in 1800. Craven County, NC, court papers dated 19 Apr 1800 discuss the administration of John Williams' estate by one John Ernul, probably Lydia's brother.

Family lore says that Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Williams and Parker Baggott were married, by one of Lydia's relatives who was a pastor, at the insistence of her relatives. Her father, Moses Ernul, would have been long dead by 1800. The lore also claims that Lydia and Parker were distant cousins. These particular lore items have not yet been corroborated.

Parker and Lydia Lavinia (nee Ernul) Williams Baggott had five known children together:

1801. Daughter Lydia Lavinia Baggott, born 23 Jan 1801. [Parker aged 31]
1802. Son Elisha Ruel Baggott, born about 1802. [Parker aged 32]
1803. Daughter Mary "Polly" Baggott, born 7 May 1803. [Parker aged 33]
1806. Daughter Martha A "Patty" Baggott, born about 1806. [Parker aged 36]
1810. Son John Baggott, born about 1810. [Parker aged 40]

1810. [Parker aged 40] The US Census lists:^[6]

1810 US Census of Orangeburg, SC

(1) Head of Household: Pr Baggit

(1) Female, Over 45, [b. bef. 1766] -- [Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Williams Baggott]

(1) Male, 26-44, [b. 1766-1784] -- [Parker Baggott]

(1) Female, 10-15, [b. 1795-1800] -- [Patience Williams]

(1) Male, 10-15, [b. 1795-1800] -- [John (or Thomas) Williams]

(1) Male, 10-15, [b. 1795-1800] -- [Moses Williams]

(1) Female, Under 10, [b. 1800-1810] -- [Lydia Lavinia Baggott]

(1) Male, Under 10, [b. 1800-1810] -- [Elisha Ruel Baggott]

(1) Female, Under 10, [b. 1800-1810] -- [Mary Baggott]

(1) Female, Under 10, [b. 1800-1810] -- [Martha Baggott]

(1) Male, Under 10, [b. 1800-1810] -- [John Baggott]

NOTE: Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Williams Baggott was apparently older than Parker Baggott, as would be expected based on the dates of their first marriages--hers in 1783, his in 1797--and the fact that she had three children from her first marriage. ^[7]

About 1813. [Parker aged 43] Family lore says that Parker Baggott deserted Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Williams Baggott, their mutual children, and her orphaned children. He is said to have driven off in a carriage with an unidentified woman. No divorce record between Parker Baggott and Lydia Lavinia (Ernul) Williams Baggott has yet been found. Based on the 1810 Census information, Parker Baggott may have delayed leaving long enough for Lydia's eldest son, John (or Thomas) Williams, to turn eighteen, thus leaving him to tend the farm.

Third Marriage

1814. [Parker aged 44] A Tennessee marriage record from Washington county shows a marriage between Joseph Parker Baggett and Mary Lansdown on 3 Feb 1814. ^[8] The fact that both names, Parker and Baggott/Baggett, are relatively uncommon lends credence to the possibility that this record corroborates family lore concerning Parker's desertion of Lydia for another woman, namely Mary Lansdown. Washington county, Tennessee, could have been reached by taking an adjoining fork of the Great Wagon Road that brought many settlers to North and South Carolina from places north since the mid-1700's. The Great Wagon Road was reputed to be the most heavily traveled road in America in the late 1700's and early 1800's.

Death. It is unknown when or where Parker Baggott died, but it must have been sometime after his third marriage on 3 Feb 1814.

Further Research Prospects

The names of Parker and Lydia Baggott's children give clues for more research.

Daughter Lydia Lavinia Baggott was named after her mother.
Elisha Ruel Baggott may have been named for Parker's father. Lydia's father was named Moses but her son by her first marriage, Moses Williams, was already part of the blended family. A second Moses would have been confusing and unnecessary. There were no Elishas in Lydia's Ernul birth family, but her paternal grandmother may have been Elishe Arnal. If Elisha Ruel Baggott was named after Parker's father, one possible father is the Elisha Baggett (notice the E in Baggett) born in Northampton county, NC, in about 1750. Elisha Baggett of Northampton was the son of Abraham Baggett, also of that county. This Elisha Baggett would be a good fit as Parker's father according to the timeframe: Elisha Baggett, born about 1750; Parker Baggott, born about 1770-75, Elisha Ruel Baggott, born about 1802. Little is known about Elisha Baggett of Northampton, born about 1750, but if he died during the Revolutionary War, this would explain some of the difficulty in tracing Parker's roots. The source of the name Ruel raises another question.
Mary was possibly named after one of Lydia's siblings, but the name was so common that it may refer to one of Parker's relatives as well.
Martha does not appear to be a namesake for anyone in Lydia's family, possibly Parker's.
John is another common name. It seems likely that its use, when there was already a John Williams in the blended family according to family lore, means that John was named after a Baggott relative. The earliest known Baggott in America was John Baggett who settled in Surry County, Virginia in the mid-1600s. John Baggett had many namesakes in every branch of his descendancy--many of whom could be the reference point for Parker's son John Baggott. By the time John Baggott, son of Parker, was born, he could have been six or more generations removed from the original John Baggett of Surry county, Virginia.

DNA Clues

23&Me y-DNA shows that one of Parker's male descendants Baggott-44 fits in the I-M253 haplogroup. FamilyTreeDNA's Baggett surname project lists several early settler Baggett progenitors who also share that haplogroup: Abraham Baggett, 1705-1767, Nicholas Baggett, 1642-1686, and others. ^[9] This strongly suggests relationship between Parker Baggott and the Baggett families descended from John Bagget who settled first in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, during the mid-1600s.

Sources

↑ 1880 US Census, South Carolina, Aiken county, Giddy Swamp, Elisha R. Baggot
↑ 1810 Census: "1810 United States Federal Census"
Year: 1810; Census Place: Orangeburg, South Carolina; Roll: 61; Page: 189; Image: Scm252_61-0213; FHL Roll: 0181420
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7613 #586263 (accessed 8 September 2023)
PR Baggit in Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA.
↑ North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011. Rowan County: Parker Baggett and Nancy Doty, 13 Jun 1797. Ancestry.com. [See below]
↑ Marriage Bond: "North Carolina, U.S., Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868"
State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977
Ancestry Record 4802 #41721 (accessed 8 September 2023)
Parker Baggett marriage to Nancy Doty in Rowan. Bond dated 13 Jun 1797, John Doty, bondsman, Jno Rogers, witness.
↑ 1800 Census: "1800 United States Federal Census"
Year: 1800; Census Place: Hillsborough, Person, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 32; Page: 203; Image: 212; Family History Library Film: 337908
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7590 #333023 (accessed 8 September 2023)
Peter Bagett in Hillsborough, Person, North Carolina.
↑ 1810 US Census. Orangeburg, SC. Roll: 61; Page: 189; Image: 00222. Ancestry.com.
↑ Family researcher Walter Baggott, deceased, mentioned a family bible belonging to Lydia Lavinia Williams Baggott in some of his correspondence. The bible may have more information about her children. Unfortunately, it is not known where this bible may be found and there are no known transcriptions.
↑ Marriage: "Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002"
Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1169 #1870660 (accessed 8 September 2023)
Joseph Parker Baggett marriage to Mary Lansdown on 3 Feb 1814 in Washington, Tennessee, USA.
↑ "Baggett - Y-DNA Classic Chart," FamilyTreeDNA. Baggett Y-DNA Chart

Parker Baggott (abt. 1770 - aft. 1814)

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