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Josephus H. Conn Fa: Mo:
1775-1794
Birth date according to 1820 Tennessee Census.
29Aug1792
Sister Elizabeth Conn married. Walter Guild and
Elizabeth Conn Sur. John Mack. (Marriages of
Pittsylvania Co., Va. 1767-1805, Catherine Knord, pg
36.)
8Nov1792
Sister Lydia Conn married. Daniel Tompkins and Lydia
Coner(sic) married by Rev. Clement Nance. (Marriages
of Pittsylvania Co., Va. 1767-1805, Catherine Knord,
pg 88.) Clement Nance listed in Early Minister's
Bonds of 1790 as a Baptist. (History of Pittsylvania
County, Maude Carter Clement, pg 291.)
1803
Signed petition to State Legislature of Tennessee to
provide independent Company of Infantry Sumner Co.
12OCT1803
Letters remaining in Post Office in Nashville Josephus
H. Conn
20DEC1803
Deed 20 Dec 1803 Thomas Marquiss to Stephen Stone
$642 tr on Big E fork of Staton Camp Creek part of 640
acres orig granted heirs of Benjamin Porter 107 acres
Wit: Jas A Conn, Stephen Stone, Peter Dagner, Francis
Fonville, Jurat. Witnessed deed Thomas Marquiss to
Stephen Stone Sumner County. (Sumner County, TN Deed
book 3, pg 438.)
14JUN1804
Deed 14Jun1804 Robert Trousdale to David Dement $300
tr being lot 9 in Town of Gallatin Wit Jo H Conn
James Trousdale. (Sumner County, TN Deed Book 3, pg
476.)
20JUN1804
Deed 20Jun1804 James Trousdale to David Watson
$45.00 tr joining town of Gallatin Wit: Isaac Lane,
Robert Trousdale, Jas H Conn. (Sumner County, TN Deed
Book 3, pg 463.)
JUL1804
Assault and battery on James D. Reeves a minor under
the age of 21 with Swords, staves, knives, and fists
at Gallatin.
1AUG1804
Bondsman for marriage John McConnell & Betsy Strother
Sumner Co.(Sumner County Marriages 1787-1838,
Abstracted by Diane Porch, pg 21.)
SEP1804
Trial for above assault, plaintiff dismisses the suit,
defendant to pay the costs, which Josephus does.
20Aug1804
Becomes Postmaster Gallatin Tennessee (Tennessee Post
Offices and Postmaster appointments 1789 - 1984,
complied by D. R. Fraser.)
18MAR1805
Mentioned as "Attorney in fact" for plaintiffs Thomas
Pasley and James White merchants vs. Arthur Exum for
$50 owned by Exum. Also acted as referee in case John
Trice vs. Nathaniel Smith (County Court Gallatin)
8NOV1806
Deed James Trousdale to Josephus H Conn
$225 tr in Town of Gallatin being 1/2 lot 1 in nw
square Wit: Jas Shelby, Jim Desha, James Brown
(Sumner County, TN Deed Book 4, pg 146.)
14MAY1807
Deed 14May1807 William Christmas, Atty-in-Fact for
Richard Fenner & Robert Fenner of North Carolina to
Reubin Cage $500 212 acres part of tr granted James C
Countflorence for 1000 acres Wit; J C Hamilton,
Joesphine H Conn. (Sumner County, TN Deed Book 4, pg
259.)
14MAR1808
Josephus to Samuel Conn tract of land adj Gallatin
being one acre. (Sumner County, TN, Deed Book 4, pg
292.) Deed 14Mar1808 John C Hamilton to Samuel Conn
$98.75 tr Beg at corner of Josephus H Conn on bank of
Spring branch being in Gallatin. (Sumner County, TN,
Deed Book 4, pg 299.)
9MAY1808
Bondsman for Marriage John Gains & Charlotte Prewett
with Thomas Fairly(??) (Sumner County Marriages 1787-
1838, abstracted by Diane Porch, pg 15.)
24OCT1808
Sheriff's Deed 24 Oct 1808 Archibald Martin Shff,
to Samuel Conn, Assee of Josephus H Conn, Josephus
having execution against John Wiley for $72.80, 1 lot
in Gallatin. Wit: John Mitchell, James Howard, Edmund
Green. (Sumner County, TN, Deed Book 4, pg 404.)
Sheriff's Deed Same date and parties as in above
ded, 2 acres joining S side Gallatin being against
good and chattles of Joseph Reeves for $19.92 (Sumner
County, TN, Deed Book 4, pg 405.)
1Mar1810
Deed Jesse Johnson to Lynch A. McGhee, $100 tr in
Cairo. Wit: William Cage, James Conn (Sumner County
Deed Bok 5, pg 121.
2Apr1810
Deed 2 Apr 1810 William Bradshaw Maury Co, Tn to
William Youree, $1.00 tr on Cumberland River part of
tr orig granted to Hugh Bradshaw by North Carolina
Patent 353 & being 80 acres Wit: John Brown and JAM
Conn (Sumner County, TN Deed Book 5, pg 146.)
26Jun1810
Deed 26Jun1810 John Hezlet, Robertson Co. Tn to
William Parr $400 lot in Cairo, being 50 perches land
Wit H Cook, Saml Conn Jo H Conn Jno Brown. (Sumner
County, TN Deed Book 5, pg 128.)
31Jul1810
Samuel Conn Will, Sister Lydia Tompkins to have house
and lot whereon I now live. Sister Petavia Conn lot
adjoining the one I now live on, and notes on James
White of Abington. My nephew Joseph Gill 137 acres on
Bledsoe Creek. My nephew James Gill land on East fork
of Bledsoe's Creek. Friend John Brown $100.00, My
brother Joseph H. Conn exec. (Will Book I p. 134)
(Sumner County Will Abstracts 1779-1823 --1823-1842,
Edythe Whitley, pg 15.
4JUN1811
Page 231 Deed 4Jun1811 Nathaniel Parker Senior to
Thomas Parker (relationship not stated), $385, 59 1/4
acres on Bledsoe Creek part tr commonly called
Greenfield's Survey, adj lands of David Shelby and
James Clendening Wit: Jo H Conn (Sumner County, TN
Deed Book 6, pg 231.)
2OCT1811
Deed 2 Oct 1811 James Winchester & William Cage junr
to William M Allen and Littlebury Lesueur, latter of
Davidson Co. $100 Lots 102 & 104 in Town of Cairo.
Wit: John Martin & Jos A Conn Jurats & Charles
Henderson. (Sumner County, TN Deed Book 6, pg 86.)
1NOV1811
Deed 1 Nov1811 Isaac Shelby, Jun, Rutherford Co Tn to
George D Blackmore & Secheus Wilson, Exrs of Richard
Taylor decd $2189 tr of 398 acres part of tr of 640
acres orig granted to Even Shelby by patent from North
Carolina on 10 Jul1788 adj NE cor David Wilson &
corners of Zacheus Wilson & Fredrick Edwards. Wit:
John Jones, Jo M Conn, Edward Jones. (Sumner County,
TN Deed Book 6, pg 121.)
4Apr1812
John Brown m: Octavia Conn Sumner County. TN. BDM
Samuel Meridith. (Sumner County Marriages 1787-1838,
abstracted by Diane Porch. pg 38.)
19Jan1813
Deed 19Jan1813 Tildin Taylor to Josephus H Conn $1100
tr on Indian (Alias) Askers Creek beg in Great Road
leading from Cairo to Gallatin abutting James S
Wilson, Chichester Howard, & Sacheus Wilson. Wit: Jno
Brown, William Cage, Thos Brown. (Sumner County, TN
Deed Book 6, pg 317.)
24May1813
No longer postmaster Gallatin, TN. (Tennessee Post
Offices and Postmaster Appointments, 1789 - 1984, D.
R. Fraser.)
(Note: Cairo Postoffice established 1Oct1798, closed
15Oct1847. Same Source.)
31Aug1813
Deed 31Aug 1813 George D Blackemon & Zacheus Wilson to
Chichester Howard, $110 22 acres 28 poles, part of
preem of 640 acres granted to Evan Shelby, known as
Asher's Station tract, beg at nw cor Josephus H Conn &
part of tr conv by Isaac Shelby, heir at law to Evan
Shelby, the grantee by deed to heirs and exrs of
Richard Taylor, decd. Wit: Joel Parrish, James Barry.
(Sumner County, TN Deed Book 6, pg 425.)
4OCT1813
Mustered into 1 Regiment Militia Infantry War of 1812
West Tennessee Militia Wynne's and 2 Major
9NOV1813
Battle of Talladega
A History of Sumner County Tennessee From 1805 to
1861,By Walter T. Durham, Sumner County Public Library
Board, Gallatin, Tn 1972.
Major Josephus Conn of Cairo also served in the battle
action of Talladega. A fellow participant, Colonel
Joseph Brown of Maury County, later described the
action, "I went with Major Conn's column of 80 men;
and, by some mistake, we were thrown obliquely to the
right, and in contact with some 500 Indians in one
body, when we had a severe battle. Here about 70
Indians fell. pg 63. See Albigence Waldo Putnam,
History of Middle Tennessee, or Life and Times of
General James Robertson (Nashville, 1859) pg. 308.
1813
Guild attended the school after his parents died in
1813 and he moved to Cairo to live with his uncle and
aunt, Major and Mrs. Josephus H. Conn. ( A History of
Sumner County Tennessee From 1805 to 1861,By Walter T.
Durham, Sumner County Public Library Board, Gallatin,
Tn 1972. pg 99.)
4JAN1814
Discharged from active service at Fort Strother
Fayetteville. Returned to Lebanon in Wilson County
24Jan1814
Letter to Andrew Jackson from Josephus H. Conn.
Dear Genl,
Any address from you will be honourably rec'd from a
friend, a soldier and an officer by the _______
_______ I will gather every information ralative to
the
1MAR1814
Deed 1 Mar 1814 William Beard to Francis Yourie $275
50 acres on W side Bledsoe Creek, beg in Zigler line
being all the estate of Beard Wit Jo H Conn, R G
Gillispie, John Brown. (Sumner County, TN Deed Book
7, pg 65.)
5AUG1814
Deed 5Aug1814 Josephus H Conn of Cairo, to Sumner
County Commissioners appointed to superintend the
building of a jail, Commissioners being Isaac Baker,
Samuel K Blythe, William McCall, Joseph Barron, &
George Crockit. $100 lot in Gallatin. Wit: Robert
Crockit, David Crockit. (Sumner County, TN, Deed Book
7, pg 72.)
1DEC1814
Deed 1 Dec 1814 John Stealey, Monongalia
Co. Va, to George Roberts & Peter Stealey, 5 acres
land and 3 lots in town of Cairo, part tr orig granted
Ephriam Payton by paten from North Carolina 10
Jul1788 beg cor to Joseph Wilson land, & also lots.
Wit: Jo H Conn, Stephen R Roberts. (Sumner County, TN
Deed Book 7, pg 291.)
14Dec1814
Deed 14Dec1814 Josephus H Conn to Anthony B Shelby
$315 tr adj Town of Gallatin on S being 5 1/4 acres &
17 poles Wit: Owan Faulk, John Johnson. (Sumner
County Deed Book 7, pg 387.)
17MAY1815
Deed 17May1815 Joes Eckols, Senr to Josephus H Conn
$2000 163 acres on N side Cumberland River adj Town of
Cairo on the East Wit: Jno C Outlaw, Jno Brown.
(Sumner County, TN Book 7, pg 160.)
20NOV1815
Appointed executor along with John Brown of will of
George Burton in Pittsylvania County Virginia.
1815
Josephus to James Robb a lot in district 3 (Sumner
County, TN, Deed Book 7, pg 99.)
13Feb1816
Lydia Tompkins, proved February 1816 Will - (partly
gone). My sister Ann Burton. My brother Jeffhus H.
Conn To Lydia Eliza Brown Daughter of John Brown. My
Niece Lydia Burton. My brother-in-law John Brown to
be executor. Wit Jno. Shelby, Stephen R. Roberts.
(Will Book I p. 134) (Sumner County Will Abstracts
1779-1823 --1823-1842, Edythe Whitley, pg 22.)
1816
Sumner County tax list (Index to Early Tennessee Tax
Lists; Byron and Barbara Sistler; pg 41.)
1816
Deed to Anthony B. Shelby 5 acres (Sumner County, TN,
Deed Book 7, pg 381?.)
1816
Deed _______ 1816 John Hazlett, Henry Cook and Jacob
C Cook, to James W. Breedlove $700 lot, houses, etc
in Cairo Wit: Jo H Conn, Wm Smith, Jno Brown. (Sumner
County, TN Deed Book 7, pg 315.)
1818
Deed from estate of Lemuel T. Turner
1818
Deed from Edward Douglass
1818
Deed from Zacheus Wilson
1818
Deed to Lydia Burton a lot (Sumner County, TN, Deed
1819
Book 8, pg 256.)
Elected State senator from Sumner County to 13th
General Assembly. In 1818, my uncle, Maj. Conn, who
had likewise distinguished himself in Jackson's Indian
Campaign, was elected to the Legislature, and during
the canvass reflections were made upon him. According
to the prevailing custom fo that day, he called his
traducer to the field. He sent me to Gen. White, who
then resided on White's creek, for his dueling
pistols. (Old Times in Tennessee, Josephus Conn Guild,
pg 285.)
Conn, Josephus H. (? - 1820)
House, 13th General Assembly, 1819 -1821,;
representing Sumner County; died before 2nd session of
this assembly convened on June 26, 1820. No
information has been found on Representative Conn
beyond the following facts: he may have been the son
of Daniel Conn, who was living in Pittsylvania County,
Virginia in 1767, and that his sister Elizabeth, was
born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, c. 1778; she
became the mother of Josephus Conn Guild and
grandmother of George Blackmore Guild, sometime
members of Tennessee General Assembly; Conn died in
Sumner County in 1820 prior to June 26; place of
Burial not determined. (Biographical Directory of the
Tennessee General Assembly Volume I 1796-1861, Robert
M. McBride and Dan M. Robison, pg 159 (published
1975.)
1819
Deed to George Roberts, et al (Sumner County, TN,
Deed Book 9, pg 1.)
15FEB1819
Deed to Abraham Stanfield (Sumner County, TN, Deed
Book 9, pg 1.)
1819
Deed to Samuel Lockhart (Sumner County, TN, Deed Book
9, pg 133.)
22NOV1819
Josephus to John Branham one lot adjoining town of
Cairo on the east and on the west side of Ferry Street
and known as lot 14 in the plan of lots laid off by
Josephus Conn (Sumner County, TN, Deed Book 9, pg
126.)
1820
Deed from Silas Pruitt
1820
Deed from Sheriff Sumner Co.
1820
Deed to William Smith a lot. (Sumner County, TN, Deed
Book 9, pg 148.)
1820
Deed to Martin Green 3 acres. (Sumner County, TN,
Deed Book 9, pg 232.)
1820
Deed to John C. Outlaw a lot. (Sumner County, TN,
Deed Book 9, pg 257.)
1820
Census Sumner County 002310/01001/13 slaves
Feb1820
Supplemental inventory of estate of John Key Sr. decd,
by John Keys Jr, extr, Two negroes, "one in hands of
Josephus H. Conn, the other in hands of Robert White."
(Sumner Co., Tn, Inventory settlements and Guardian
Accounts Vol. A, March 1808 - Feb1821, Mrs. Gale
Bamman, pg 49.)
Aug1820
In Inventory of estate of Josephus H. Conn Dec'd by
John Brown Admr. 6 negroes. (Sumner Co. Tn
Inventories, Settlements and Guardian Accounts Vol A,
March 1808 - Feb1821, Mrs. Gale Bamman, pg 53.)
14Oct1821
James Guild from Lydia Tompkins Heir 1821.
This conveys lot #7 on west side of oak st. To Jos.
and James Guild. Although Lydia left a will she did
not dispose of this lot although according to the
court "it is well known to many that she intended the
said lot (and in her lifetime so expressed herself)
for her nephews James Guild and Joseph Guild." Oct
14, 1821. Heirs Ann Burton, John Brown and Octavia,
witness: Wm Harvey, Lucious Winchester
signed: Ann (x) Burton, Jon. Brown, Octavia Brown
(Sumner Co., TN;Sumner Co. Deeds Book 9 pg 313 Roll
#110 TSLA)
1823
Josephus H. (estate) to William Harvey (Sumner
County, TN, Deed Book 10, pg 290.)
Miscellaneous: Conn, Josephus H. (? - 1820) House
13th Gen. Assembly 1819-1820 representing Sumner
County; died before 2nd session of this assembly
convened on June 26, 1820. No information has been
found on Rep. Conn beyond the following facts: He may
have been the son of Daniel Conn, who was living in
Pittsylvania Co. Va in 1767, and that his sister
Elizabeth was born in Pittsylvania Co. in 1778. She
became the mother of Josephus Conn Guild, and
grandmother of George Blackmore Guild, sometime
members of Tennessee General Assembly. Conn died in
Sumner Co. in 1820 prior to June 26; Place of burial
not determined. (Biographical Directory Tennessee
General Assembly 1796-1969, Preliminary #32, Macon
County, Sumner County, Trousdale Co. page 35,TSLA)
Tennessee Records, Tombstone Inscriptions and
Manuscripts compiled by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen.
A partial list of noted people buried in the City
Cemetery of Nashville pg 20, George Conn 1838- 1839.
pg 17 Ann Burton 1766-1843.
(Source unknown.) Burton, Charles b: 1740 Goochland
Co., VA., died 1785 Caswell Co., NC m: Mary Holland,
Child George b:3Jul1764 m Ann Conn
History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Maude Carter
Clement.)
pg 164 List of people taking oath of allegiance to
Virginia, John Wilson To Charles Burton's Company.
pg 176. To prevent suffering in the families of
absent soldiers the court appointed certain ones to
furnish the wives of the soldiers with the necessaries
of life. In May 1777, Charles Burton was appointed to
furnish the wife of John Hall.
Clayton, Prof. W. W. History of DAvidson County,
Tennessee, pg 392.
The biography of Judge J. C. Guild
Judge J. C. Guild was born in Virginia; his paretns
were Scotch-Irish. His father, Walter Guild, was a
native of Scotland, and was educated in Edinburgh; his
mother, Elizabeth Conn was of Irish descent. Their
children were Dr. James Guild, a disginguished
physician and surgeon of Tuscallosa, Ala. now living
at the advanced age of eighty-one, and Josephus Conn
Guild his brother, four years younger.
Their parents removed from Virginia in 1806 to Sumner
Co., Tenn; afterwards to Stewart County, same State
where they remained until 1811, when they returned to
Sumner County and settled on the head-waters of
Bledsoe's Creek. They died in 1813, within a week of
each other, of milk poison. ...had preserved to them
foster parents in the persons of their aunts, Octavia
Brown and Lydia Tompkins, and their uncle Maj.
Josephus H. Conn, who gave them homes and such
education as the country afforded.
Their uncle Maj. Joe H. Conn, was a remarkably fine
looking man of great energy and courage. He commanded
a battalion and gallantly fought in all of Gen.
Jackson's campaigns. He was a member of the General
Assemby in 1818, and agreeably to the custom of the
times, fought a duel--sole way of settling
difficulties arising in the heat of political debate.
He was an ardent admirer of Gen. Jackson, occasionally
acting as second in some of the general's
difficulties. He was never married and died in 1820.
Bible Records Guild Family (Josephus Conn Guild 1805)
Woner Mrs. Robert M. Colmore Jr. Lookout Mtn. TN,
Copies in Manuscript Section of TSLA.
Maj. Josephus H. Conn was born in the state of
Virginia and moved to Tennessee and settled in Sumner
Co. With his brother Samuel Conn and their two sisters
Lydia Tompkins and Octavia C. Conn. Samuel Conn died
about ____1810. His sister Betsy married a Virginia
Walter Guild. ... Major J. H. Conn was Six feet high
of Fine Fisick (sic) well proportioned and extremely
active. A man of _____ courage and few____ and energy.
He commanded a batallion from Tennessee in Gen.
Jackson's company in the Creek War and gallantly bore
himself in all those battles which gave peace and
safety to the bleeding country. He was elected to the
General Assembly of Tennessee in the year 1818 and
served with distinction. He never married and after
taking care of his sisters and Dr. Guild and Judge
Guild and moving his sister Nancy Burton from Virginia
with her orphan children, providing for and settling
them in Sumner County, he died in the year 1820
verfield (??) and beloved by all who knew him. Lydia
Tompkins died about the year 1817. Octavia Brown had
born to her three children to wit, Lydia Eliza who
resides in Marshall Texas, Samuel Conn Brown
Born___1815 who died in 1825, third Octavia Conn who
only lived a month and died in 1818. Octavia Brown
died in Cairo the 3rd day of Oct 1825.
(Bible Records, Guild Family (Josephus Conn Guild,
owner Mrs. Rupert M. Colmore, Jr. Lookout Mtn. TN
copy in Manuscript section TSLA)
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