Elizabeth (Thompson) Farley (abt. 1770 - 1850)

Born about 1770 in Augusta, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of William P. Farley — married 1 Sep 1789 in Montgomery, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died Apr 1850 at about age 80 in Giles, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Birth: Elizabeth Thompson was the daughter of William Thompson and Mary Patton.Both Elizabeth's parents are confirmed by the case files for the three Chancery Court suits arising out of the Springfield Tract litigation. ^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Marriage: On September 1, 1789, Elizabeth married William Farley the son of Thomas Farley and Judith (Clay) Farley, in Montgomery County, Virginia.^[6][7] Thomas Farley appeared as defendant/husband on Elizabeth's behalf throughout the Springfield tract litigation arising out the Estates of her grandfather Col. James Patton and her father Lieut. William Thompson. ^[1][2][3][4]

Land Transactions:

By instrument dated December 4, 1804, William Farley, and Elizabeth his wife, of Montgomery County, Virginia conveyed to Jacob & John Peck of the same county, 165 acres which was part of three several tracts, viz. first, a 260 acre parcel patented to William Thompson and William Preston, executors of the estate of James Patton, deceased, by patent dated 23 Dec. 1779; second, a tract of 667 acres granted to George C. Taylor, agent of the Loyal Company, by patent dated 8 August 1798; and, third, 340 acres patented to Henry Farley, Sr. on 11 Sept 1785, who held equitable right to the lands and devised the equity rights in those lands to Henry Farley who conveyed by deed dated 19 September 1804 to William Farley.^[8]

Unsourced Biographies

From History of Logan County, W. VA., by Henry Clay Ragland, Chapter XXII:

William Farley, a brother of Capt. Henry Farley, of Peach Creek, settled near the mouth of Buffalo. He married a Miss Thompson, of Albemarle County, Virginia, and was the father of four sons and one daughter. His sons were William - known as "Punch Bill" - who married a Miss Alen, of Boone; Thompson, who married a Miss Chapman; Nimrod (Father of the late Senator Farley, of California), married a Miss Slater, and Henry, who married a Miss Starr. Henry was quite a prominent citizen, and represented the county in the Virginia Legislature.

From Cabell Co., WV 1809-1996 Heritage - page 171:

William Farley, the third son of Thomas Sr. arrived in Cabell County in 1817. He had purchased land from his brother Henry in Lee County in 1804. He lived there until he sold the land in 1816. He settled on Bears Branch which is a tributary of Beech Creek and the Tug River. This now Mingo County, West Virginia. He and wife Elizabeth Thompson, youngest daughter of William and Mary Patton Thompson had nine children. [submitted by Mary Elizabeth Ferrer]

"After Thomas, Sr. died in 1796, William and Elizabeth lived in Lee Co., Virginia, then appeared in Cabell Co., in 1820 where William bought 125 acres and appears on the Logan Co., Tax list in 1824 when it was formed from Cabell County." (Jean Clark Abshire, Jan 1999).

From Tracing the Farleys' Steps from Virginia to Harlan County:

Many of the settlers in southeast Kentucky had their origins in the New River area of Virginia. One such family is the Farleys.

About 1755, Thomas Farley, who was of English ancestry, settled in that area. He and his wife Judith had a number of children, including a son, William.

William Farley married Elizabeth Thompson and soon afterward moved further west, settling in what is now Lee County, Va., where they remained for the rest of their lives.

Among other children, they had three sons, Thomas, Jesse and Henry, who all moved across the mountains into Harlan County. Forrest Farley, one of William's brothers, also moved across the mountains into Kentucky, living mostly in Perry County.

William's son Thomas was born about 1795.

Research Notes

• Marriage information for second marriage is recorded in Montgomery County, Virginia on 11 Sep 1789.
• His Family - Person Page 19 - http://generations-past.net/carl/thompson-o/p19.htm#i742
• Rootsweb Communication, very interesting read (placed by Lewis-10321): broken link
• There is no souce which supports William nickname as "Hopping Bill".

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} McManis v. Thompson Images of Montgomery County Chancery Court records available here
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Thompson v. Thompson Images of Montgomery County Chancery Court records available here
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Sheffey v. Cloyd Augusta County Chancery Court records available here
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 Vol. 2, p. 205-206, 247 Abstract of Sheffield v. Cloyd available here
5. ↑ Thompson v. Thompson available here
6. ↑ Marriage Bond of 1 Sept 1789
7. ↑ Grose, S, Pulaski County Virginia Heritage 2003, Thompson-Patton, p. 83-84 Unsourced profile Available here on Google Books
8. ↑ Virginia, Montgomery, Deed Book D, p. 171 available here

• DAR Records: http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=568162&MyLineageCount=1
• Source: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L89B-FTH
• Source: "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8J-888 : 29 January 2020), Elizabeth Thompson in entry for William Farler, 1789.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #174614549 Elizabeth “Betsy” Thompson Farley (1770–1850) reports a unmarked..somewhere in Virginia.