Sarah Ligon - Some early Research

Hopefully the Tanner name was just a mixup with her mothers name.

Updated Sarah (Ligon) Ligon

I don’t think there were two Henry Ligons marrying two different Sarah Tanners. Rather, it’s alternate parents for the one Sarah Tanner (Tanner).

See notes at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ligon-56

Henry Ligon married his cousin Sarah Ligon, daughter of Mary (Tanner) and Maj. William Ligon, [1] [2]

Note: Dorman shows her parents as William and Elizabeth (Batte) Ligon, with William and Mary (Tanner) Ligon as her grandparents. Dorman shows that William and Mary (Tanner) Ligon had a daughter named Sarah but does not give additional details for her.[3]

• "Ligon Family and Connections" by William D. Ligon & Bond Press of Hartford, CT in 1947.
• U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900 compiled by Yates Publishing on ancestry.com citing code=DP1; source#1527.000.
• John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5: Families G-P (Genealogical Press 2004); chapter: "Thomas Harris", pages 268, 271-272, 275 (accessed 3 March 2019 online at Google Books) < GoogleBooks >

Do we really think Sarah (Ligon) Ligon was age 97-100 at death? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ligon-173 Shows she married 1734.

Average age of first marriage in that time and place was 16-18, “old maid” if unmarried by age 21. William Ligon ll (died 1764) married by 1704 to Elizabeth Batte. I don’t think we have birth dates for her children, so we could perhaps estimate between 1704-1718.

We’ve been relying on “Worsham and Washam family history. By” Tuttle, Dorothy G. Washam, Larry E. http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/585974 (Free membership needed to view) “Worsham and Washam family history”. Page number 18 Page viewer number 32 (of 883) Book Link: http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/585974 Page link: http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/585974/32 see (document attached)

But Ligon “is” a collateral family for them, and Dorman is considered the current day expert.

If we decide Sarah, daughter of Mary Tanner & William Ligon l, has no further record, I’d rather merge her into Sarah, daughter of Elizabeth Batte & William Ligon ll, and create a new Sarah l. I think would be most fair to her managers and the current biography.

Citation for

Tuttle Dorothy G and Larry E Washam. Worsham & Washam Family History. Tuttle and Washam (2000). 869 pages. FamilySearch Books (free membership needed). Book ID: http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/585974

Note: this is a self published manuscript, not primary records or peer reviewed. It is well cited with good footnotes, but at heart it’s a register report. So it’s easy for generational controversies to be resolved in (perhaps) less than logical way.

Well, the Ligon family book doesn’t agree with you.:)

https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo/page/371/mode/1up

6. Issue of William3 and Elizabeth (Batte) Ligon:

i. Sarah4 Ligon, m. Henry Ligon.

15. ii. William4 Ligon.
16. iii. Joseph4 Ligon

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 - why don’t you do this,

Find an additional Henry Ligon who could have married a cousin Sarah Ligon born about 1712.

I don’t think there is one, and the Will evidence you presented is very clear that Sarah (of William) married Henry Ligon.

Citation for

Ligon, William D. (William Daniel). The Ligon family and connections. Volume l. https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo

Tagging Henry Ligon, of Prince Edward County

https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo/page/379/mode/1up

11. Henry3 Ligon, Sr., son of Richard2 and Mary (Worsham) Ligon; married before the year 1734, his first cousin, Sarah Ligon, daughter of William2 Ligon. He died in the Parish of St. Patrick, Prince Edward Co., Va., in 1762, and his wife died in the same county in 1785.

https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo/page/325/mode/1up

I. Issue of Major William2 and Mary (Tanner) Ligon:

5. i. Thomas3 Ligon.
6. ii. William3 Ligon.
7. iii. John3 Ligon.
iv. Joseph3 Ligon.
v. Mary3 Ligon, m. 1st, William Anderson. A license was granted them July 15, 1698, Henrico Co.a She m. 2nd, Peter Rowlett. Court at Varina January 1716/17 : Statement that Wm. Ligon, deed, left certain land to be divided between his daughter Mary (now married to Peter Rowlett) & an unborn child, now 21 years old, & named Lucretia.b
vi. Phebe3 Ligon.
vii. Lucretia3 Ligon.
viii. Sarah3 Ligon, m. Henry3 Ligon (11).

Generally, we have one profile based on children, and possible alternative parents noted in profile “about.”

We don’t yet have a younger Henry Ligon to match the younger Sarah Ligon, therefore, no children to work with.

So either elder Sarah Ligon didn’t marry the only Henry cousin, or younger Sarah Ligon didn’t.

What is the evidence that the elder Sarah was the wife of Henry? What record is being cited?

Suzan Martin - can you take a look at this?

I see you had looked recently at Sarah’s son William Ligon (discussion https://www.geni.com/discussions/269032?msg=1649367)

The problem is, Sarah the daughter (b 1689) of Mary Tanner or (b say 1712) of her daughter in law, Elizabeth Ligon

If she was the daughter of Mary Tanner, she was the child “my wife now goes with” in William’s 1689. He did not mention a Sarah, but did leave that child property.

https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo/page/320/mode/1up For the Will of William Ligon l.

After that there’s disputes Mary Tanner had with her mother in law, but I don’t see a Will or other indenture naming a daughter Sarah.

For even more fun, see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ligon-56

They show (in research notes, not tree) that Henry Ligon, of Prince Edward County married twice - an unknown first wife.

Dorman shows Henry's children as

by first wife:

Thomas Ligon[3]
Elizabeth Ligon[3]

by cousin Sarah:

Henry Ligon[3]
William Ligon[3]
Sarah Ligon[3]

[3]. John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5: Families G-P (Genealogical Press 2004); chapter: "Thomas Harris", page 275, footnote 113.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tcM40zgdAZgC&lpg=PA262&vq=%22thom...

Correcting myself on post https://www.geni.com/discussions/265501?msg=1650210

Elizabeth Batte was the sister in law of Mary Tanner, the wife of William3 Ligon ll, brother of Mary’s husband Henry3.

So the question is whether Sarah (wife of Henry3 Ligon (d. Abt 1762) was Mary Tanner’s daughter (born before 1689) (Sarah3) or her niece Sarah5.

I’ve added the generation indicator used for person # 11 in the book.

Remember that the book contradicts itself on her.

Here’s the page with her children, none of them have birth dates listed.

https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo/page/381/mode/1up

I’ve come along further in understanding why Dorman listed Sarah as a daughter of William Ligon l but not the wife of Henry Ligon. Grandma!

The Ligon grandmother Mary Ligon didn’t like her son, apparently with very good reason, but extended that dislike to her daughter in law Mary Tanner & the 8 kids. She didn’t mention any of them in her will, and Mary finally had to go to court to get some of her rightful property.

But Mary Tanner’s mother (who had a wretched second husband) Mary Platt mentioned all her grandchildren living in 1699/1700, and Mary Tanner Ligon was her executrix.

So in 1700 the Ligon children mentioned with gifts were Thomas, Joseph, Phebe, Lucretia. No Sarah, nor is she mentioned in the 1689 will of Thomas Ligon.

If it wasn’t Dorman mentioning Sarah (he calls her Sarah4, Ligon calls her Sarah3) I’d think she was a mistake. But a standard (and expensive) book like Dorman’s series is carefully edited. Like everything published, there can be new findings, but they would be published in Journals.

I’ve uploaded documents to show the case.

Forgot to tag Mary Farrar & Maj. William Ligon

Of course he flunked with your gal Grace Neale, didn’t everyone?

But his configuration works with the will data; Sarah Ligon is not mentioned in 1689, or in 1699/70, but she is in 1759.

https://archive.org/details/ligonfamilyconne01ligo/page/364/mode/1up

In the name of God Amen, I, William Ligon, of Prince Edward, being weary in body but in a sound mind and memory does on 22nd day of October in the year of our Lord 1759 make this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say, …

Item. I give to my daughter Sarah Ligon, wife to Henry, ten pounds current money of Virginia also one bed and furniture as it stands as also four cows and four calves to be delivered after my said wife deceased.

Her son William Ligon was born about 1737 according to his DAR record:

https://services.dar.org/members/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=fu...

So if she were the elder Sarah, she’d have been about 52 years old. Yes, I know it can be physically possible, but it’s unusual. Particularly when a Sarah Ligon cousin born about 1712 is right there.