Youngbloods of Lafayette County Mississippi

The first phase of this journey will be told with respect to the individual men of our Youngblood line, going back as far as I have names for them. Though we probably never will know the names of earlier men, there is still quite a story to tell of those times. The second phase will take our line back to Germany, and how the line's Y-chromosome tells us where they came from before the advent of human civilization. The final phase will cover the rest of the family tree of Beulah Youngblood, my great-great grandmother, through all of her great-great grandparents. Keep in mind that most of them lived their lives before the Revolution.

Dave Howell's mother was Beulah Youngblood, born 1866 in Lafayette County Mississippi. Buelah's father was Calvin "Cadda" Youngblood, born 1824 in Calloway County Kentucky. Cadda claimed to have been born in Tennessee. He was 35 years old when he wed Beulah's mother, and it was his second marriage. The 1860 census listed him as a lumberman. He had two children with is first wife. Cadda fought in the 29th regiment of the Mississippi Infantry in the Civil War. He was buried in a confederate cemetery in Oxford Mississippi. Cadda's father was Amos, born 1786 in 96 District South Carolina. He began raising his family in Edgefield County, then moved to Kentucky after the War of 1815. Though our line lived for decades amongst the plantations, there's no evidence that they ever owned slaves. I will return to how that illuminates their origin. Amos made land transactions in Tennessee, so Cadda certainly had more connection to the state than living on the other side of its border, formed by the Tennessee River. He always claimed to have been born in Tennessee, probably not near to Calloway County Kentucky but more easterly, as the family migrated from South Carolina.


Cadda Youngblood

When I began research on the Youngbloods, the most consistent purported origin for them was a fascinating line back to New Amsterdam before it became New York, ultimately from the Netherlands. I was aware that there was contention over this, and that Y-DNA testing had proven that different Youngblood descendants weren't actually related. At the time, I wasn't able to see how this applied to our line. I adopted the Dutch one, and ThruLines seemed to support it, though the results for Amos's mother's line were uncertain. This is an example of how ThruLines can be influenced by wrong information, because those who contended that the Dutch line was wrong for most Youngblood lines didn't put forward as clear a picture of what the actual lines were. Earlier Youngblood research, I'm not sure what book it was published in, claimed many Youngblood men of the Carolinas and Georgia came from the Dutch line. This was via John Miles Youngblood Sr and Jr. ThruLines reported many cousin connections via children of John Miles Jr, whom I had as Amos's father. But though they were and are my cousins, John Miles Jr wasn't our common ancestor. John Miles Sr is too far back to identify cousins of my father through his siblings, or ThruLines might've made more clear there was a problem. It was a case of all these cousins and others slating John Miles Jr where another Youngblood man should've been. I believe that his name was John, but of a different origin. The reason why the initial bad research occurred, and continued to be propagated, was both the Dutch line and our closer relatives used similar names and lived in the same colonies/states.

Let's go back to the immigration point and Y-DNA evidence to show how our true origin can be found. Previous research to mine placed proven close relatives on a path from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to South Carolina and Georgia. Known descendants of a Peter Youngblood born in 1725 are most closely related to Amos. Very close to them, but not as close, are descendants of a Peter Youngblood born in 1732. Another group descends from a Thomas Youngblood who was born in 1745, who were a little more distantly related than the other two groups. Comparing these to the Y-DNA of the Dutch line, the common ancestor was thousands of years ago, long before surnames were adopted, so the common name was a complete coincidence. My research of the available material showed Benjamin as the patriarch of Amos's line, who was born about 1695. Peter born 1700 immigrated to Maryland in 1739, who was Peter 1732's father. Jacob born 1715 was the patriarch of Thomas 1745's line. Y-DNA shows that Benjamin and Peter 1700 were brothers, and Jacob was probably their first cousin. Benjamin's is our line, so the last points I'll make about the others is Jacob and at least some of his descendants were Quakers. This ties them to Pennsylvania, and I expect that Jacob's line immigrated there earlier than 1739, possibly much earlier. He might've been born in the Germantown area.

Youngbloods were known to have been in Georgia since before I began work on them. There are land acquisition documents from 1771 to 1775 where the John Sr and Jr were considered to be John Miles Sr and Jr. I now don't believe it was them at all. They apparently also moved to Georgia, as there are probate records for them, but the Youngbloods in St Paul's Parish (around Augusta) were all ours I believe. But let's take a step even further back. There's a document "Germans of Colonial Georgia" and an immigration list that have Benjamin coming directly to Georgia after 1733, that his sons were Peter and John, and each of the latter acquired land on the Georgia coast from 1759 to 1762. It appears quite clear that Benjamin was our ancestor, and either Peter or John.

Before we further consider our Youngblood path in Georgia, let's take another step back. Our line wasn't Dutch, but another German one. It was religious wars in mainland Europe that resulted in all or at least most of our German and French ancestors coming to America. I believe it began with the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648, where western Germany and the Alsace region of France were devastated. Then in 1685 there was a succession crisis in the Rhineland, and the King of France attempted to acquire the Rhineland. It was laid waste even worse than before. Another war occurred in 1693, and finally German Protestants began to flee to the New World. William Penn invited them to come to Pennsylvania, which is what most of our German ancestors did. Our French ancestors from Alsace had French names, so I would guess that their common cause with the Rhinelanders was more religious and the French were French-speaking Calvinists.

As for the Youngbloods, the King of Britain invited Protestants being persecuted in Salzburg (future Austria) to settle in Georgia, and they established the town of Ebenezer near Savannah in 1734. Ships continued to arrive with settlers from Switzerland, Swabia, and the Rhineland over the next two decades. The Rhinelanders were the most common, and I expect that ours were of them, and came in the 1740s. My interpretation of the available information is that Jacob 1715's line came to America first, maybe before he was born. Benjamin was probably Peter 1700's brother, who came to Maryland in 1739. Given that Benjamin (spelled his name Jungblut) was older than Peter, he might've come earlier, but I tend to think it was a bit later. The Crown asked of these early Georgia settlers to be a buffer to protect South Carolina from the natives and the Spanish in Florida. In fact, Fort Frederica was built to guard against the Spanish, who attempted to drive the British out of Georgia. Benjamin's son John acquired property around Frederica in 1762.

The land acquisition records around Augusta from 1771 show that Benjamin, Peter, and John had moved there in previous years, I would guess in the late 1760s. The other groups of related Youngbloods had moved to North Carolina around 1751, and then on to the 96 District of South Carolina from 1767. So, what was the path to Amos, our known ancestor? It looks like research previous to mine had guessed that he was born in 1775 either to fit in as a son of John Miles Jr or John son of Benjamin, who was born about 1730. But the two census records I have for Amos have him born after 1785 (1810 census) and in the 1780s (1830 census). My guess is that Amos was born in 1786 because he already had children in 1810. We already know that he wasn't John Miles Jr's son, and his predecessor was one of Benjamin's sons (Peter born 1725 or John born 1730). Neither could've been Amos's father, based on the ages. The best guess I have is Peter's son John who was born in 1748. John 1730's children were too young to have been Amos's father, so Peter looks solid as Amos's grandfather. If John 1748 isn't accurate, it was one of his brothers (assuming he had brothers). My assumption is that John 1748 was born in the Savannah area, he was the John Jr in the St Paul's Parish land records, and he moved to the 96 District of South Carolina to start his family. Our Youngblood Y-DNA is of haplogroup R-M269, which isn't very revealing except to show that they weren't a group that moved into western Germany from eastern parts. The Youngblood name is German for the heather leaf.

Beulah Youngblood's other Great-Great-Grandparent Lines

In the last phase of this document, I collect all that I know about the non-Youngblood paternal lines of the great-great-grandparents of my great-great-grandmother, Beulah Youngblood. Refer to the Scott Pedigree page for a simple view of Beulah's ancestors.

Burgess

Beulah Youngblood's mother was Nancy Burgess, born 1835 in Newton County Georgia. Nancy's father was John Burgess, born 1789 in Laurens County South Carolina. John's father was Joel Burgess, born 1735 in Bedford County Virginia. Joel was in the South Carolina militia, active after the fall of Charleston. Joel's father was Edward Burgess, born 1717 in Anne Arundel County Maryland. Edward's father was Samuel Burgess, born 1698 in Anne Arundel. Samuel's father was Edward Burgess, born 1651 in Anne Arundel. Edward's father was William Burgess, born 1622 in England. William was maybe the most prominent immigrant we had, called a Colonel, for what service I'm not sure. He was the deputy governor of Anne Arundel, and owned the land upon which it was established. There's a plaque about him in town that says he was born in Truro, Cornwall England. Our Burgesses come from a relatively unique Y-DNA of R-U106. That haplogroup is a Celtic branch off R-M269 that's specifically associated with the Frisians who settled Britain along with the Anglo-Saxons. The Frisians were enemies of the Geats, as told in Beowulf. Burgess comes from the French burgeis, or bourgeois, a caste between gentry and serf in the old feudal system. Apparently ours did well enough. A Frisian cavalry was stationed at Binchester fort in Roman times, but our line was much more likely immigrants with the Angles and Saxons etc. Presumably they came to America as Anglicans. I've found no evidence that they were slaveholders.

Cadwallader

Cadda Youngblood's mother was Elizabeth Cadwallader, born 1786 in Bedford County Virginia. Cadda's first name was actually Calvin, so look no further for the source of his nickname. Elizabeth's father was Thomas Cadwallader, born 1765 in Fairfax County Virginia. Thomas's father was Moses Cadwallader, born 1730 in Chester County Pennsylvania. Moses's father was John Cadwallader, born 1694 in Chester. John's father was also named John, born 1645 in Radnorshire Wales. The Cadwalladers were Quakers and not slaveholders. There's a Welsh DNA project that has multiple entries for John the immigrant, and they don't agree. All but one were R1a, and the one was E-M35. Either there were multiple Johns that immigrated about the same time, or someone thinks they descend from him and doesn't, or there was an adoption in that line. Ours was R-L664, which descended from R-M198. See the distribution map below. This is the eastern European haplogroup, which we have in a couple of Swiss/German lines. It's very curious to find it in Britain. But knowing that our sub-branch was R-L664 helps to show an affinity with seafarers from Denmark or Norway. Our line has some sort of Viking connection, maybe coming in the time of the Danelaw before the Norman invasion.

Wyatt

Nancy Burgess's mother was Susan Wyatt, born 1788 in Greene County Georgia. Susan's father was Thomas Wyatt, born 1755 in Caroline County Virginia. Thomas's father was John Wyatt, born 1731 in Caroline. John's father was also named John, born 1684 in Gloucester County Virginia. John Sr's father was Edwin Wyatt, born 1629 in Kent England. The name Wyatt comes from French Guyat, or Guy. While Guillaume became William, Guyat became Wyatt. It came to England with the Normans. Presumably our line was Anglican. They were slaveholders. It looks like the Y-DNA is of haplogroup R-M512, an R1a line like the Cadwalladers. R-M512 is the parent group of R-M198. It's very curious that Beulah Youngblood's parents both had mothers that came from R1a lines, since they're rare in western Europe. Both probably went to southern England in a similar way, and maybe at the same time.

Satterwhite

One of the uncertainties about having John Miles Jr Youngblood as Amos's father was the identity of Amos's mother. There was conflict between member trees and cousin connections, now known to be due to the widespread misadoption of the Miles line. Using the same method I have elsewhere in the tree, I studied the documented neighbors of Amos's grandfather to find peers who could've had a daughter to become Amos's mother. I landed on Sutterwhite, a neighbor in the 1771 St Paul's land documents. By creating a Mary as daughter of Thomas Satterwhite, the correct form, ThruLines found cousins via multiple children of Thomas. I'm taking this to be proof, though I can't back it up with more results at the next generation back, as it's too far from my father to find connections. As of this writing, I don't know anything else about the Satterwhites. I also don't have a name for Peter 1725's wife.

Daniel

Elizabeth Cadwallader's mother was Jane Daniel, born 1765 in Caroline County Virginia. This line is sketchy, but I believe Jane's father was William Daniel, born 1725 in Caroline. William's father was Simon Daniel, born 1678 in York County Virginia. Simon's father was John Daniel, born 1649 in York. John's father was also named John, born 1626 in Bristol England. Presumably this line was Anglican. Houseofnames.com claims that Daniel is not an English surname, even though it says its earliest attestation was in the same area where our John Sr immigrated from. It says the name is patronymic, which is obvious, but that it was Scottish. Bristol is right between Wales and Cornwall, so it seems plainly evident to me that our line was Welsh in origin. The Daniel DNA project is private, so I have to guess this line is Y-DNA haplogroup R-M269. The Daniels were Quakers.

Heath

Joel Burgess's wife was Ellen Heath, born 1745 in Bedford County Virginia. Ellen's father was William Heath, born 1726 in Surry County Virginia. Like other lines in this tree, there's no evidence the Heaths were slaveholders, but William published a note in a paper that an Irish servant of his had run away. William's father was Thomas Heath, born about 1680 in Westmoreland County Virginia. This line came from England, and the immigrant was probably Thomas born 1612. Presumably this line was Anglican. A heath is an infertile flat highland, and this surname is believed to be associated with such a place. There's no clear connection to us is the Heath DNA project, so I have to guess haplogroup R-M269.

Needham

Susan Wyatt's mother was Mary Needham, born 1757 in Pasquotank County North Carolina. Mary's father was John Needham, born 1735 in Pasquotank. John's father was also named John, born 1708 in Pasquotank. The Needhams are related to the Baileys of eastern North Carolina on my mom's side. John Sr's father was Thomas Needham, born 1675 in Pasquotank. Thomas's father was also named Thomas, born 1622 in Cheshire England. The name is believed to be based on a town called Needham. Presumably this line was Anglican. I've seen only a single Needham Y-DNA test done, and it was haplogroup R-M269.

Malin

Moses Cadwallader's wife was Lucy Malin, born 1735 in Chester County Pennsylvania. Lucy's father was Thomas Malin, born 1705 in Chester. Thomas's father was Isaac Malin, born 1681 in Chester. Isaac's father was Randle Malin, born 1649 in Cheshire England. It looks like the Malins came to Pennsylvania with William Penn, and were probably Quakers. Houseofnames.com claims this is an Irish surname, but that certainly doesn't seem to apply to ours. Going to forebears.io, Malin is common in France, which tells me it came to England with the Normans. The DNA of our line though, is another of the Frisian haplogroup R-U106, which means they came with the Angles and Saxons. They had to have adopted the name Malin after the year 1066.

Dupre

Jane Daniel's mother is a curiousity. The original name I found was Esther Deubraugh. Geni.com claims that her maiden name was Graham, but I have that as her middle name, and the info on geni is generally nonsensical. Ancestry.com has her born in Wales. The Netherlands database, which I've found very suspect, says her maiden name was actually Dupre and her parents were James Dupre and Jane Hodges of Philadelphia County Pennsylvania. Deubraugh isn't recognized anywhere I've seen as an actual surname. I'm not going to guess on this line, but I have chosen to title it as Dupre as the least problematic option.

Fewell

Joel Burgess's mother was Margaret Fewell, born 1710 in King George County Virginia. Her father was Henry Fewell, born 1678 in King George. Henry's father was Stephen Fewell, born 1653 in London England. I've seen claims that Fewell is Scottish or German. If either applies to us, it would be German being related to Old English. I've seen no Fewell DNA tests, so I have to guess ours was of Y-DNA haplogroup R-M269.

Hayes

Ellen Heath's mother was Martha Hayes, born about 1710 in Surry County Virginia. Martha's father was Peter Hayes, born 1693 in Isle of Wight County Virginia. Peter was at least the third in the line with that name, so let's call him Peter III. Peter II was born 1661 in Isle of Wight. The immigrant was named Peter, but he was born 60 years before Peter II and wasn't likely his father. The eldest was born in Cheshire England. Wikitree.com traces the line back to a knight called John de la Hayes in Lincolnshire 15th century. The name Hayes was in Scotland and Ireland, with separate origins from the English ones. In England there were multiple placenames called Hayes, meaning a field of tall grass. I found a Peter Hayes in the Hayes DNA project, but at least a century later than ours and unknown location. I have to guess Y-DNA haplogroup R-M269.

Smith

Thomas Wyatt's mother was Elizabeth Smith, born 1740 in Louisa County Virginia. Her father was Thomas Smith, born 1720 in Louisa. Thomas's father was William Smith, born 1680 in Gloucester County Virginia. William's father was Lawrence Smith, born 1629 in Lancashire England. This line seems to have no relation to other Smith lines in our trees. I make the usual guesses about an English line here.

Garner

Mary Needham's mother was Susannah Garner, born 1743 in Bladen County North Carolina. Susannah's father was John Garner, born 1708 in Stafford County Virginia. John's father was Thomas Garner, born 1668 in Stafford. Thomas's father was John Garner, born 1634 in Shropshire England. There's a Garner deep in the Tapp tree that might be related. The name might be from French Gernier or a shortened form of Gardener.

Summary of Beulah Youngblood's Great-Great-Grandparent Lines

Only one of the sixteen lines was known to have owned slaves, and many were clearly abolitionists. The deep part of the tree has a lot of lines that look Anglican, so a few may have been slaveholders. There is some interesting diversity, but Beulah's ancestors were still three quarters English and Anglican. Youngblood itself is Dutch, and two lines were Welsh. Some are from areas of England near to Wales. A full six lines were Quakers and Puritans, and one Dutch Reformed, so this is a very unique tree religion-wise for our ancestors. Three quarters were of Y-DNA haplogroup R-M269, but a few of those are guesses. Two lines are from eastern European origins, but it doesn't look like it was very far east, at least not in the last couple thousand years. Two are of the otherwise rare Frisian haplogroup.

Migration paths
Youngblood: 1860 Paris, Lafayette, Mississippi - 1817 Hamlin, Calloway, Kentucky - 1810 Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina - 1771 Woodbridge, Columbia, Georgia - 1745 Smithfield, Johnston, North Carolina - 1680 Gunpowder, Baltimore, Maryland - 1630 New Amsterdam, New Holland - 0 Rotterdam, Holland
Burgess: 1830 Covington, Newton, Georgia - 1785 Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina - 1735 Bedford, Bedford, Virginia - 1650 South River, Anne Arundel, Maryland - 0 Truro, Cornwall, Wales
Cadwallader: 1800 Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina - 1750 Bedford, Bedford, Virginia - 1760 Fairfax, Loudon, Virginia - 1680 Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania - 0 Radnor, Radnorshire, Wales
Wyatt: 1815 Covington, Newton, Georgia - 1790 Greensboro, Greene, Georgia - 1775 Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina - 1710 Bowling Green, Caroline, Virginia - 1680 Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia - 0 Boxley, Kent, England