On Feb. 17, 1758, Adam's name is found on a list of debtors to Col. James Patton as of Oct. 4, 1753. Adam's line is mentioned on Aug. 19, 1765, when John and Mary Mills sell to Israel Christian 150 A. * In Bedford Co., Va., John(3) was b. in 1754. There, Anthony sued Looney & Co. (Augusta Co. - ? WRL) in 1759 and Luny sued Etson in 1761.
Adam(2) seems to have been the first Looney to get the fever for further southward migration and he did not halt long at the Holston River, if at all. On Oct. 2, 1765, Adam and Hanna Looney of Mecklenburg Co., N. C., deeded to Alex Evans the 140 A. on Looney's Creek. (This Evans was on Capt. George Robinson's muster roll of 1742. Was he husband of "Jane Evans, late Looney", presumably widow of Daniel(2) Looney, who on Aug. 18, 1761, asked for "administration of her husband's estate hitherto granted to David(2) Looney"?) John and Moses Looney who witnessed Adam's deed to Evans were, probably, the oldest two sons of Robert(2) and Margaret Looney; that is John(3) who m. Elizabeth Rentfro and Moses(3) who m. Sarah Holston. (Note: Penciled notation following which appeared to have been erased - possibly they were Adam's sons - WRL).
Adam(2) Luney had a survey 20 Feb. 1762, on Beaver Creek in St. Mark's Parish, Granville County, S. C. This grant was issued for 100 acres dated 30, May 1762. This was probably in or near the present Fairfield County. (S. C. Land Office, Columbia, S. C.).
* Note: "There, Anthony sued Looney, etc."; LWT's handwritten note was not clear whether a scrawled capital "A" or "&". Could he have meant "Augusta County" or "and company"? The latter seems unlikely. WRL.
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The following remarks were made by Prof. Rupert Taylor regarding Adam's first settlement in Carolina:
"This (1762) seems the earliest record yet found of Adam Looney in the Carolinas. There was a Beaver Creek in 1780 in Camden Precinct, probably Craven County, S. C., about 10 miles south of the border at that time. The name, St. Mark's Parish, is shown on a 1780 map about 50 miles S. E. of this Beaver Creek which flows S. W. into Broad River, about opposite the mouth of Enoree River, in what is now Fairfield County, S. C. There was another Beaver Creek, in Orangeburg Precinct of Berkley Co., probably also in St. Mark's Parish, flowing east into Congar River; but this is about 50 miles south of the old border. Still another Beaver Creek, in Orangeburg Precinct, Berkley Co., about 30 miles south of the old border, flows N. E. into Saluda River. Which of these could have been in Granville County in 1763? Did Adam Looney go from Va. direct to Orangeburg and settle just a few miles N.W. on Beaver Creek of Saluda River? (In 1764, or previously, Adam's brother, Absalom Looney, had been in "Carolina" and had returned to Augusta Co., Va."
Regardless of location of the earliest survey, the 2nd location of 1765 (See above address of Adam(2) and Hanna on previous page) seems to indicate that Adam(2) had moved north on the trail, possibly some 30 to 50 miles to Mecklenburg Co., N. C.; or possibly the southern part of Mecklenburg Co., N. C. actually was supposed to extend into what is now South Carolina.
Adam(2) Looney was styled as of Craven Co., S. C., on Sept. 27, 1767, when for L30 he deeded his 271 A. tract on Meadow Run to John(2) Looney (his younger brother) who much later (1807) having m. Esther Rentfro deeded same in part at least to his son, David Looney. Adam Looney may have retained some land in Augusta, however, because of July 6, 1768, mention is made of his corner.
(Principal reference: Chalkley's Annals of Augusta Co., Va.) "At Raleigh, N. C.. in a paper marked List of Letters Testamentary granted in the year previous to 26 Oct., 1770, etc., one finds:
"Adam Loony, Intestate, to Robert Loony on bond of Jno. Nichols and Patrick Moore, L250; and in Part I of Tryon County Minutes, Part I, Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of 1769-1782 at p. 47 one finds:
On motion of Bromfield Remley it is ordered by the Court that Letters of Administration issue to Robert Loony of all and singular the goods and chattels of Addam Loony, deceased, he to comply with the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided. He proposes for security John Nichols and Patrick Moor bound for the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds. This motion was made at the Session of Court beginning 4th Tuesday in July 1770, and adjourned day by day for a few days.
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"On p. 55 of the same minutes it is found that Robert Loony was on the "petity" jury.
"On p. 57 of same minutes, at session beginning 4 Tues, in Oct. 1770: Robert Loony, administrator of Adam Loony, decd., returned an inventory and prays an order of sale which was accordingly granted."
An "order for sale" usually refers to real estate sold to pay debts, or for care and education of orphans. Was Adam's real estate sold and did Robert(3) buy same?
Who was the wife of Adam(2) Looney? In 1765 her first name was Hanna. According to tradition among some descendants in Georgia and Kentucky, she was Hannah Wright. Certainly there was a family of Wrights in the Mecklenburg area of the Carolinas at an early date, and Adam(2) may have gone south with them. In Tryon County in 1770 on 28 May (at about the time of Adam(2)'s death there) William Wright sold to Moses Wright (both of Tryon County) for L55, 600 acres of land on the north side of Broad River, on Turkey Creek, land granted to said William Wright, then in Mecklenburg County. (Tryon Deeds 1770, 112).
Also, in the same area, on 6 Sept. 1771, for L200, James Wright and William Wright of Tryon County, sold to William Byars of same place, 535 acres in Tryon County of Bullock Creek (formerly Wright's Creek) on the north side of Broad River. (Tryon Deeds 1771-1772; 102-4).
Who was the first born son of Adam(2) and his wife, Hanna Looney? According to tradition among his Georgia and Kentucky descendants, Adam (2) had seven sons and they all were patriots and served during the Revolution, except one who had remained in the north and was a Tory. If there is any truth in this tradition, it is probable that Robert who administered on the estate was the second son. Adam(2) Looney was born, according to estimates made by cooperating investigators of early Looney data, about 1725 and thus was old enough to have had a child older than Robert whose birth has been estimated above as 1748.
In Sept. 1943, Dr. Walter O. Shriner, Looney descendant of Adam's Kentucky Branch (through David(2) and Isabella Kinkead) (WRL note: Actually, Mrs. Shriner is the descendant; also, that was David(3) ), wrote the compiler (LWT):
"this recent report seems to present a pattern which throws considerable light on the Adam Looney Branch - - - - now, who was the brother who was mentioned as a Tory and who later moved north?
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Could it have been James Looney who was in command of Blackmore's Fort in the Clinch Valley in Sept. 1774? There is some reason to believe that this James Looney may have been the eldest son of Adam(2) Looney Sr., and that he was too far removed to serve as administrator of his father's estate in 1770. - - - - ."
"Capt. James Looney and Capt. John Kinkead were both at the Clinch River in 1774. Since David was only 12 years old at the time of his father's death, it is likely that he spent his time with various relatives from 1770 to 1776. To have visited with the James Looney family would have been his best opportunity to have met the John Kinkead family - - -. Does James Looney fit into any other branch? He certainly affords a splendid link in providing my David Looney an opportunity to meet up with the John Kinkead family."
It was 20 years later, in Sept. 1963, at Raleigh, N. C. , that the compiler (LWT) found the above item about James Wright and William Wright as co-owners of land on Wright's Creek of Broad River in Tryon County where Adam(2) Looney had died. Thus it is now understood that a son named James in the family of Adam(2) Looney is not illogical.
The children of Adam(2) Looney and his wife Hanna (perhaps Wright) Looney were:
Probably a son, perhaps named James(3) Looney, b. say 1746.
See 3rd Gen.
Robert(3) Looney, b. say 1748, bapt. 4 Mar. 1748/9. See 3rd Gen.
Possibly a daughter., Margaret(3) Looney, b. say 1749. See 3rd Gen.
Adam(3) Looney Jr., b. say 1750. See 3rd Gen.
Moses(3) Looney, b. say 1752. See 3rd Gen.
John(3) Looney, b. 1754, Bedford Co., Va. (pension application).
See 3rd Gen.
Peter (3) Looney, b. say 1756. See 3rd Gen.
David(3) Looney, b. 9 Aug. 1758, Augusta Co., Va. (Family Register).
See 3rd Gen.
Sarah(3) Looney, b. say 1760. See 3rd Gen.
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Robert(3) Looney was born, say 1748, and baptised by Rev. John Craig on 4 Mar. 1749 at "Lewney's" Mill Creek of James River in Augusta County, Virginia. This minister of Colonial days was on his way from North Mountain to the Roanoke. (The name David has sometimes been given as the infant's name but there is no trace of a David of approximately suitable age). (Baptisms by Rev. John Craig; Maxwell Genealogy, p. 588)
Robert(3) Looney certainly went southward with this parents when Robert was about 16 or 17 years old and probably lived with this parents until the death of Adam(2) in 1770 when Robert was 22 years old. As reported above in the account of Adam(2), the administrator was Robert(3) Loony and an "order for sale" was requested of the court and granted. Did Robert(3) Loony buy his father's real estate or part of it? Certainly Robert(3) sold some of it about 4 years later because on 2 June, 1774, Robert Loony of Craven County in Ninety-Six District was probably married and owned land which had been "granted to Adam Looney, father of Robert Loony, by the Governor of North Carolina," and Robert for 5 shillings sold it to George Marchbanks. The witnesses were John Nuckols and William Marchbanks. (Union Co. Deeds A, p. 4, S. C.) Note that John Nuckols had previously, in 1770, been a security for Robert(3) Loony when he was granted administration on the estate on Adam(2) Loony. Court minutes show that Robert(3) Loony was a juror in Tryon Co., in Jan. and in July 1772. Robert(3) Loony was appointed a Constable in Tryon Co. in 1772. (He did not buy or get 200 acres of bounty land in (Abbeville) Pendleton Co. until 1784. It was on the waters of the Tugoloo River - some of which he sold later in 1795 and 1797).
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Robert Loony and others petitioned the province of North Carolina on 15 May 1775, to relieve them of expenses regarding the titles to their lands supposed in N. C. but found in South Carolina after the boundary between the provinces was run.
On 18 Jan. 1785, Robert(3) was paid L15-7 1/2s. for repair of arms in Capt. Tutt's Independent Co. of Militia in 1780. (Stub Entry No. 587). On 24 Aug. 1785, he was paid L23-10-4 for duty on 439 days in said company in 1779-1780. (Stub Entry No. 22, Bk 0). (Bk O -? WRL). He was an Ensign at King's Mountain as listed in King's Mountain Men, by Summers, p. 1397.
On 19 Feb. 1786, Robert Looney on waters of Broad River in York Co., S. C., for L50 sold to John Jeffries of Union Co. on waters of Gilkie's Cr., a plantation in Union Co. on waters of Gilkie's Cr. containing 600 acres, originally granted to Samuel Gilkie, then conveyed to Adam Dickinson, then to David Looney, then to Robert Looney. Witnesses: John Ross, Nathl. Jeffries, Morning Mitchell. (Union Co. Deeds A; 171).
In 1790 Robert was listed as Loony in York County, Canden District, with 2 males over 16, 5 males under 16, 5 females, and no slaves. Descendants state that he m. Betsey Quinn and that he had a brother John and others, all but one of whom were Patriots during the Revolution, and some fought under Col. Ben Cleveland at King's Mountain. "One of the brothers settled in the north and cast his lot with the Tories; after the war they settled in Virginia and South Carolina."
In 1793 Robert Loony of Pendleton, S. C., had a power of attorney from Elijah Oliver. In 1795 and 1797 he sold land on the waters of the Tugaloo River, some of which had been granted in 1784. Much land here was granted for military service.
Robert(3) Loony and his wife were enumerated in Pendleton Co., S. C., in 1800, 1810, and 1820, but not in 1830.
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The children of Robert(3) Looney and Mary Betsey (Quinn) Looney were all born in western Carolina, some in parts where Tryon, N. C. held jurisdiction:
Peggy(4) Looney, b. 30 Sept. 1775
Sally Looney, b. 16 Jan. 1778. Perhaps m. Abishia Camp and had John J.
(or T.) Camp, b. 1795, et al.
Adam (4) Looney, b. 13 (or 15? PY, transcriber) Aug. 1780. See 4th Gen
Hugh(4) Looney, b. 14 Nov. 1782. See 4th Gen.
Peter(4) Looney, b. 14 Nov. 1782. See 4th Gen.
Daniel(4) Looney, b. 30 Sept. 1785. See 4th Gen.
Betsey Looney, b. 7 Sept. 1787. m. - - - - Walters.
Robert(4) Abraham Looney, b. 19 Aug. 1789. See 4th Gen.
Polly Looney, b. 22 Nov. 1791. Perhaps m. c. 1814 James Camp, b. Nov.
1791. 12 ch.
John(4) Quinn Looney. b. 13 Aug. 1793. See 4th Gen.
David(4) Looney, b. 11 Sept. 1795. See 4th Gen.
Thomas(4) Farrer Looney, b. 4 Aug. 1797. See 4th Gen. m. Rachel
Miller.
Noah(4) Looney, b. 30 Sept. 1799. See 4th Gen.
Joseph(4) Looney. b. 12 Oct. 1801. See 4th Gen.
(It is possible that one of the above daughters m. Peter Quinn).Margaret(3) Looney was probably the oldest daughter of Adam(2) Looney and Hanna (Wright). Margaret was born say 1749 and married Hugh Quinn. On 23 April 1770, Hugh Quinn of Tryon County and Margaret, his wife, sold to Wm Capshaw of Tryon Co. for L60 a tract to (of - ?) 300 acres of land on so. side of Green River and n. Fork of White Oak Creek, formerly granted to John Webb on 24 Oct. 1767, and by him conveyed to Hugh Quinn. A witness was James Capshaw. (Tryon Deeds 2; 79).
On 8 Aug. 1770, John Connor of Tryon Co. sold to Hugh Quinn of same for L23, 200 acres in Tryon Co., on N. side of Little Broad River beginning at Quinn's Corner on said River (patented 20 Oct. 1767). Witness: Peter Quinn (Tryon Deeds 2, 159).
On 31 July 1771, Hugh Quinn and Margaret, his wife, of Tryon Co., N. C., sold to Wm Capshaw of same for L50 land on So. S. of Green River, 200 acres on both sides of N. Fork of White Oak Creek, including plantation formerly of John (or Joel) Blackwell. Of the 300 acres Hugh and Margaret reserve 100 acres (northward part). (Tryon Deeds 3, 64-66).
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On 7 Apr. 1773, Alexander Dickenson of Duplin (?) Co., N. C. , sold to Peter Quinn of Craven Co., S. C. , tract of 200 acres for L65 on both sides of Cathay Cr. , a (at - ?) s. fork of Secors and Broad River. Wit.: Hugh Quinn (Tryon Deeds V, 242).
On 21 Dec. 1777, Hugh Quinn and Margaret, his wife, of Tryon Co., sold to George Dickenson of Charleston, S. C. , for L700 two tracts (1) in Tryon Co. on E. s. of Broad River granted 27 Apr. 1767, to Jno. Walker (2) 157 acres on E. s. Broad River granted to John Walker. (Tryon Deeds 3; 211).
Adam(3) Looney Jr. was born say 1750. After the death of Adam(2) Looney in Tryon County, N. C. (which at one time probably extended its jurisdiction for a considerable distance into South Carolina) it is not unlikely that some of his older children returned to Virginia. There is proof that this was probably true of Adam(3) (and possibly true of a possible older son James(3), and probably true of a younger son David(3).
In record book No. 24, at p. 18, at Raleigh, N. C. , it is shown that Adam(3) Luny had a survey for 300 acres in Tryon County on the north side of Paceolet beginning at a red oak, thence w. 220 poles to a white oak, thence north 220 poles to a pine, then east 220 poles to a stake, and thence to the beginning - dated 25 Nov. 1771. Jo. Martin. (p. 14; Hugh Quinn had 70 acres in Tryon Co., on east side Broad River).
On 12 June 1772, Adam(3) Looney had patent for 140 acres on Stone Run of Craig Creek in Botetourt Co., Va. (Va. Land Pat. 40; 682). On 12 Sept. 1772, Adam, Joseph, and John Looney were on a jury in Botetourt County (formed from part of Augusta in 1769). Joseph(2) Looney had not gone to Tennessee at that time and John may have been son of Robert(2), but Adam must have been Adam(2). On that same 12 Sept. Adam(3) bought from Israel Christian a certain 150 acre tract on Stone Run of Craig's Creek that John and Mary Mills had owned just prior to 19 August 1765. This property Adam(3) did not keep very long but sold to Richard Adams on 10 Feb. 1773. When on 12 May 1773, Adam(3) Looney was sued by Israel Christian for debt, the Botetourt Court decided the debt had been paid.
It seems probable that Adam(3) went south again soon after 1773 and on 9 Sept. 1776, he enlisted in the 5th S. C. Regiment (Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C., Vol.9, p.194; Book Mark R. & P. 436786; info sent to Mrs. T.W. Oliver, Sylvania, Ga., 8 April 1921).
No information has been found concerning the marriage or death of Adam (3) Looney.
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Moses(3) Looney was born say 1752 in Augusta County, Va., and taken to the Carolinas by his parents when a young lad of about 13 or 14 years. He was probably married before he enlisted as a 3-year soldier and died in military service at Boundary House.
In the Revolutionary Military Papers in the office of the Secretary of State of N. C., (now in custody of N. C. Historical Commission), in Case 628, reference No. 777, there is a certificate by Capt. Joshua Hadley dated Oct. 20, 1795, stating "that Moses Looney, a three years Soldier, died in service at the boundary House." Moses was probably wounded in service and carried to the Boundary House, which was near the N. and S. Carolina border, on the road from Wilmington, N. C., to Charleston, S. C. Moses is designated as a private in the Continental line of N. C. There is a petition by his "heirs" (not named) for land. Warrant No. 3874 dated 2 Nov. 1795, was issued to "Moses Looney's heirs. " On 17 Nov. 1795, the 640 acre warrant was transferred for value received by Jacob Looney, Heir, to Joshua Hadley; Peter Moon (or Moor) was a witness. Hadley transferred to Gen. James Robertson on 3 Nov. 1796. Land on the west side of Barton's Creek in Tenn. Co. was surveyed 12 Mar. 1797, entry No. 3874, and the grant, No. 3192, was dated 14 Sept. 1797. (There seems no basis for the "84 mo. service" mentioned in connection with this warrant on p. 99 of "Roster of Soldiers from N. C. in the American Revolution.") New District, Montgomery County was mentioned when the land was surveyed, but the location seems of no interest to the Looney family. The certification is important, however; since this Moses Looney "died in service" he was separate and distinct from Moses Looney of Sullivan County, N. C. and Tenn. Thus it is not impossible that Moses of Sullivan and Moses of Knoxville are identical as was tentatively assumed previous to consideration of the fragmentary evidence regarding land warrant No. 3874.
Did Jacob(4) Looney go to Illinois, where in St. Clair Co., Ill. in 1820 census, is found Jacob Lunee, aged 26 to 45 years?
Moses Looney participated in the Battle at King's Mountain, S. C., on 7 Oct. 1780, and is so listed. (Annals of S. W. Virginia, by Summers, p. 1397; King's Mountain Men, by White, p. 201).
Boundary House is described as located 40 miles from Wilmington, N. C., 41 miles from Georgetown, and 61 miles from Charlestown (Charleston - ?). (State Records of N. C. XV; 382 and XVII; 578).
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