Let me thank you for having me come and talk to you about Fielding Dillard of Oglethorpe County, Ga. I am honored to be here.
Please don't be as rude to me as you were six months ago in my dream. Upon reading Dr. Jones' letter advising that this talk should last an hour, I threw the letter into the air saying, "Why, I can't talk for an hour on any subject! ". The problem was taken to my dear wife of fifty-one years where I expected sympathy. Instead, in a matter-of-fact tone, she said, "When you are talking about genealogy on the telephone, your conversations seldom run less than an hour. You'll have no problem!" Case closed! No sympathy. So I went to sleep that night with that "Nobody loves me feeling!" That must have triggered this dream. As I walked into this very room where you are now assembled, there was absolute bedlam. You were a
You have organized a great Dillard Family Association. I hope all of you take pride in it, that you work together to make the association stronger, and that you will pass this fellowship along to your children. When we consider the abuse the traditional American family is taking today at the hands of the motion picture and television industries and other groups that seem determined to destroy the family unit as we know it, our children will certainly need all the help we can give them. We have come a long way since Clarke Gable broke down all barriers when he said to Scarlett, "Frankly, my Dear, I don't give a damn." The stuff that spews into so many American living rooms today and is shown in movie houses under the guise of realism is the same type stuff that thirty or forty years ago was shown secretly to a small group of snickering men in a smoke-filled back room. A lady wouldn't dare be seen there. It is the kind of stuff I investigated as "Obscene Literature." Call me an Old Fogy if you like, but don't call me a Prude; because after thirty-five years in law enforcement I am not easily shocked by what I see or hear. I am disturbed by the distorted image some groups are trying to give to the American family unit.
Someone has said, "We can take neither credit nor blame for our family background." Strictly speaking, the statement is true. In a broader sense, however, every day we live, we take credit, we benefit, we profit from what we have inherited from our ancestors; and, make no mistake, our children and grandchildren, will be helped or hurt by what they inherit from our generation. From our Dillard ancestors we, as a family, have inherited a sense of humor, a deep faith in the Almighty God, a sense of reasonable self respect, a pride mingled with humility--not haughtiness--and a dignity that comes from hard work, resourcefulness, and thriftiness. These are fine qualities. But, let me hasten to say these qualities were not achieved without excellent outside help. To all of you spouses, male and female, present and past, who accepted us with our many faults and became members of this Dillard family, we say: "Welcome aboard and thank you! We couldn't have done it without your help."
Rev. Miles Hill Dillard, grandson of the first Fielding Dillard, had just married Lella Jackson of Meriwether County, GA., in 1886. His parents, Fielding Dillard II and America Frances Chaffin, held a spend-the-day party at their home in Oglethorpe County, inviting neighbors and relatives from miles around. During the introductions, one elderly lady pulled Miles aside and said, "Miles Dillard, how on earth did you get such a nice girl to marry you?" Miles quipped, "O, we Dillards have a habit of doing that, and we've been doing it for so many generations till now we've got to be right nice people."
Let me tell you another story that became a Dillard story through marriage. This one is from our daughter-in-law's family. Pam Rucker Dillard, wife of our son John A. Dillard, is seated here in the audience. Her father, Dr. Julius T. Rucker of Augusta, has just completed an excellent Rucker family history, and I am indebted to that volume for this story. Pam's great grandmother Ann Thornton lived in Elbert County, Ga., before Rural Electrification Associations. Two girls from the city came to visit Ann as overnight guests. When time came to retire, one of the girls asked Ann: "Pray tell, how do you take a bath without a shower or tub?" Ann replied: "It's quite simple. You get a pan, a washcloth, and soap. In the reservoir beside the kitchen stove you will find hot water. Dip what you need into your pan and start your bath. Begin with your face and wash down as far as possible. Then go to your feet and wash up as far as possible. Finally, you wash possible."
It was October, 1985. My fishing boat was anchored in the Fishing Creek area of Lake Thurmond in Lincoln County. Every trick and lure I owned had failed to coax a strike from a bass. Finally, it became clear, even to this stubborn fisherman, that the fishing season for 1985 was over. It would be March, 1986, before crappie started stirring again. That would give five full months to take care of a little project that kept begging for my attention. My parents lived in southwest Wilkes Co., Ga. I wanted to learn how my father's family was related to the Dillards of Oglethorpe County, Ga. Then and there I decided that if I sacrificed my other hobby of woodworking, and really concentrated on this project, I could do the research, write the manuscript, have the book printed and distributed, and when March of 1986 came, I would be back on Lake Thurmond ready to get my share of the crappies. How naive! Eleven crappie seasons have come and gone since that ambitious commitment was made. My fishing boat and motor have been sold; my place on Lake Thurmond in Lincoln County where I spent so many happy hours, has been sold; for the most part, my woodworking tools have been idle; and that research project is still incomplete. Working on family history just doesn't leave time for those less important things. Genealogy seems to have become my vice or my virtue.
When I begin thinking of genealogy as my vice, I hurry to the fifth chapter of Genesis and read again some of the "begat" verses. But, my greatest comfort comes from remembering a Bible verse learned at my mother's knee. Actually, it is one of the Ten Commandments: "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Exodus 20:12.
In December, 1993, we published a family history entitled Back to Old Virginia with Dillard, Daniel and Kin. That volume covered some descendants of Fielding Dillard but its focus was upon one Dillard family line and eight allied families. A manuscript is now well underway for a family history which will include a brief biographical sketch of every descendant we can identify of Fielding Dillard (1771-1818) and Patsey Martha Beadles. We hope it will be ready for distribution late this year or early in 1997.
You may not be as hooked as I am on family history, but your very presence here today tells me you are interested in Dillard family history. As I understand, most of you
After hearing of my new interest in family history, a fishing friend asked if I had Dillard relatives living in an Alabama county where he spent his childhood. I said probably so but I could name none. If you know of this family or are related, please understand I tell the story just as it was told to me. Remember that fishermen are prone to exaggerate. He said this Dillard family from that rural county had been feuding with a Lucas family for several generations. During the horse and buggy days, the Dillard father and his twenty year-old son were traveling a country road in a two-horse wagon when they came face to face with the Lucas father walking with several of his grown sons. As the two groups came together, the Lucas boys began throwing rocks at the Dillards. While the Dillard father was trying to control the team of horses, three Lucas brothers jumped upon the wagon. Two held the Dillard youth while another Lucas boy repeatedly stabbed the young Dillard about his chest and neck with a switchblade knife. The Lucas boys jumped from the wagon and continued taunting the mortally wounded Dillard youth. When the Dillard father looked around from struggling with the team and saw his son covered with blood and weakly sinking to the floor of the wagon, he is reported to have shouted to him: "Get out there and fight them, Boy. You're going to die anyway." While I admired the man's courage, I couldn't say if this was my Dillard line or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is but the sum of his ancestors." Then, to know Fielding better, we need to know something of his ancestors. We know that Fielding Dillard's father was Thomas Dillard who spent most of his adult life in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. We can't prove this, but we think Thomas was probably the son of Nicholas Dillard, Sr., of Caroline County; and Nicholas Dillard, Sr., was probably the son of George Dillard, the Immigrant.
Most of us who descend from the early Dillards of Virginia descend from this George Dillard who came to the colony of Virginia around 1650, as an indentured servant-- some other party paid for his passage. Some early accounts claimed, without documentation, that George was born in 1634, in Wiltshire, England, and came to Virginia in 1650 as a Barrister for the King of England. Dorothy Dillard Hughes of Lubbock, Texas--you know her--called my attention to an article which explained that, in England, Barristers are not trained at a University as in the States, but attend one of the four Inns of the Court, all in London. There are Grays Inn, Lincoln Inn, Inner Temple Inn, and Middle Temple Inn. Solicitors there are trained under a form of apprenticeship and do legal work but are not allowed to practice before the courts of England. This has been the custom for 800 years and was the custom in George Dillard's time. The mentioned article gave two addresses to which one could write and have a name searched through the admission records of the four Inns. My letters giving a brief synopsis of what we know about George and several spellings for his last name were answered quickly. George's name was not found among the records of either Inn, and both letters added that if George, indeed, came to Virginia as an indentured servant, it would be highly improbable that he would have at the same time been a barrister.
The few remaining records concerning George Dillard show that he was one of 107 Headrights for whom a transportation receipt was turned in at the Virginia Land Patent Office by Capt. Moore Fantleroy on 22 May, 1650. The Capt. received 50 acres of land for each Headright for a total of 5,350 acres. Under the Headright system every immigrant entering the colony, or the person paying his passage, was entitled to fifty acres of land. The indentured servant was indebted to the person paying his passage, until the debt was paid. Depending upon George Dillard's age, craftsmanship and other factors, he might work as long as seven years to repay the debt.
In 1665, George Dillard patented 250 acres of land in New Kent County for having paid the passage of five other passengers. Those 250 acres adjoined land on which George was living. The implication here is strong that, during those fifteen years, George had repaid his own transportation debt, had bought land of his own, and in 1665 was financially able to pay the passage for five other passengers.
In 1665, New Kent County was a large tract of land stretching westward almost from Chesapeake Bay. The Mattapony (Mattaponi) River headwaters rose in the western section of the county and flowed southeasterly to the Chesapeake Bay. It was a time when Virginia County boundaries were changing rapidly. Settlers moved westward looking for new, cheap land on the frontier. As new settlements sprang up, new counties were formed so the settlers' business with the government could be handled without traveling great distances. So rapid was this transition that a plantation owner might find his land falling in three or four different counties in a short span of thirty or forty years. With so many changes, we need a natural landmark to follow a tract of land. The Mattapony River provides such a landmark.
King and Queen County (one county) was formed from New Kent in 1691. Then the Mattapony River, from its source to its mouth, was in King and Queen. In 1702, King William County was formed from King and Queen with the Mattapony River forming the boundary between King William on the south side and King and Queen on the north side.
In 1704, four Dillards paid Quit Rent from King and Queen County, meaning their land was on the north side of the Mattapony. Quit Rent was a tax or fee due the crown seven years after a piece of land was patented. The fee was 2 shillings per 100 acres. Those Dillards from King and Queen County were George Dillard with 325 acres, Thomas Dillard with 175 acres, Nicholas (Dilliard) Dillard with 150 acres, and Edward (Dilliard) Dillard with 150 acres. We can't prove it, but I look upon George with the larger tract of land as the Immigrant and father of the other three men with smaller tracts.
Between 1704 and 1728, Nicholas Dillard of King and Queen, patented land on the south side of the Mattapony, on Reedy Swamp in King William County. Several neighbors
Thomas Dillard was born circa 1706. The first Spotsylvania County record for Thomas shows him in 1731 to be an overseer on land of Robert Baillor in Prosessioners Precinct 5 of St. George Parish. Precinct 5 was in the southeastern corner of Spotsylvania County, near Nicholas Dillard's place in Caroline. Thomas and his first wife, Elizabeth Holloway, married about 1734. That is the year Thomas first bought land in Spotsylvania County, but I believe Thomas and Elizabeth were still living in Caroline County. Their first child Joseph was born 1735 in Caroline. When in 1756 this child, Joseph, entered military service for the French and Indian War he gave his age as 21 years, making 1735 his year of birth, and his place of birth was given as Caroline County. This son, Joseph, was shown to be of Caroline County eleven years later when, on 2 Nov., 1767, he bought land in Amherst County where he would spend the rest of his life. John Dillard, another son of Thomas, was in Drisdale Parish, Caroline County, on 17 Aug., 1775, when he sold the 100 acres inherited from his father, to his brother Richard Dillard. These ties of Thomas Dillard's family to Caroline County lead me to believe that these children were probably the grandchildren of Nicholas Dillard, Sr.
Thomas Dillard and Elizabeth were the parents of nine children before Elizabeth died about 1754. Within two years, Thomas had found a courageous lady, Sarah Mason, daughter of Peter Mason, to marry him and accept the challenge of caring for nine children ranging in age from about three to about nineteen years. Added to that number were three children born to Thomas and Sarah. The nine children of Thomas and Elizabeth were: Joseph, John, William, Thomas II, and James, and girls Ann Pettus, Lucy Luck, Jane Duvall, and Hannah Dillard who was unmarried in 1774 when Thomas made his will. Children of Thomas and Sarah were Richard, born about 1758, Mary (about whom we know nothing more), and Fielding, born 1771. Fielding was the only child for whom a guardian was appointed in December, 1774, following the death of Thomas. That guardian was Fielding's older brother John of Caroline County. Fielding, only four years old, probably did not move to Caroline County with his brother, but continued living with his mother Sarah in Spotsylvania County until her death.
Thomas made what I thought was a rather strange bequest in his will of 1774. He left to his first wife's children "one Negro woman named Juda and her increase To be equally divided among them all," proceeding to name those nine children again, even though all nine had been named in the preceding bequest. Why would this one woman be divided among these nine children who were, in 1774, adults and scattered here and there? And why were Sarah's three children not named in this bequest? I think we get an explanation when we read the will of Thomas Dillard's father-in-law, William Holloway, made thirty years earlier in Spotsylvania County on 4 December, 1744. Holloway leaves to "my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Dillard a Negro girl named Judey to her and her heirs forever." It is my belief that the girl named Judey, in 1744, had become the Negro woman Juda in 1774; and, out of respect for William Holloway's wishes, but more out of concern for Juda as she grew older, Thomas wanted to make provisions for her. He wanted those nine children who had been nurtured by Juda's tender loving care during their youth, to share in the care of Juda during her declining years.
Thomas left the homesite and 170 acres to Sarah as long as she lived and remained a widow. Upon her death or remarriage, that property would go to Joseph, the oldest boy, who was living in Amherst County, Va. Joseph sold the home and 170 acres in 1779. No doubt, Sarah Mason Dillard had died. It seems that Richard Dillard and young Fielding Dillard had cared for their mother as long she lived. But in 1779, following Sarah's death, Richard and Fielding began making plans to move on to Halifax County, Va. Richard, who had earlier bought some of the land his half brothers inherited from there father, went about disposing of that land. His wife Susannah Chapman signed some of the deeds. In 1779 (Deed recorded 18 Nov., 1779) Richard sold to John Coats a one hundred-acre tract on the north side of Pawpaw Swamp, where Richard lived. This must have been young Fielding Dillard's property. In his father's will Fielding was left "all the land I own on the North side of Pawpaw Swamp . . ." At age fourteen Fielding might have chosen his own guardian; but he was not yet fourteen, and no record of such a choice has been found.
Life was not kind to Fielding Dillard. His father died when Fielding was only four. His mother died when he was eight. Even his wedding did not run smoothly because of difficulties he and his bride experienced with the paper work. The joy that came with the birth of their first child was cut short by Fielding being charged with slander the same year. Their migration to Georgia did not help. There must have been some happy times, but Fielding did not live to see even one of his ten children grow to maturity and marry. He never experienced the joy of fishing with a grandson or watching a granddaughter play with her dolls.
Richard was married to Susannah (Chapman) by 1781 when they began disposing of land in Spotsylvania County. On 3 Dec., 1783, Richard and Susannah gave a deed to John Coats for 250 acres, and their names do not appear in Spotsylvania County records after that date. Fielding's name does not appear in those records after 5 Dec., 1774, when John Dillard was appointed his guardian. Fielding, together with Richard and his family, must have moved to Halifax County, Va., during the winter of 1783.
Susannah Chapman must have died before 1796, because on 12 Dec., 1796, in Caswell County, NC, Richard married secondly Sarah Holt. Three weeks later on 5 Jan., 1797, in Halifax County, Va, a marriage bond was taken for Richard's daughter, Salley Dillard, to marry William Holt. Richard Dillard and Sarah Holt were the parents of Richard Dillard II born 1800 in Halifax County, Va.; and this Richard Dillard II is the ancestor of Major Frank T. Dillard whose last known address to me was Ft. Campbell, Ky.
Fielding Dillard would not soon forget three events that happened while he lived in Halifax County, Va. He and Patsey Martha Beadles took a wedding bond in Halifax County, Va., on 27 Oct., 1800, with William Beadles signing the bond for Patsey's family. She had a brother named William, but it appears the bond was signed by a William Beadles who remained in that county after Patsey's family had migrated to Georgia. The wedding apparently did not take place; because two months later, on 6 January, 1801, in Rowan County, NC, another wedding bond was taken with Patsey's father, Joseph Beadles, signing for the bride's family. In the Virginia bond, both Patsey and Fielding were referred to as "of this county," while, in the North Carolina bond, Patsey is referred to as "of the county aforesaid," meaning Rowan County; but no residence is indicated for Fielding.
Considerable confusion concerning Fielding Dillard arose among researchers because of a misreading of the Halifax bond in a published abstract. In that abstract, Patsey's last name was erroneously shown as Bradley and the signature on the bond as William Bradley. This made it appear that two Fielding Dillards married two different brides in different states only two months apart. When a copy of the Halifax bond arrived from the court clerk, it was obvious the last name of the bride and the person signing for her family was Beadles. When the copy of the North Carolina bond came, the strong similarities between the two Fielding Dillard signatures on the bonds were noted. I knew that no valid comparison could be made from these specimen, limited as they were as to quality and quantity; but I wanted to know what a trained handwriting examiner would say about the signatures. I turned them over to a friend who had extensive training in that field. For obvious reasons, he did not want his name used in any publication where this comparison was mentioned; but he was satisfied the two Fielding Dillard signatures had been written by the same person.
What happened? I see two possibilities. It is my guess that Fielding and Patsey were planning to be married in Virginia; but, before the marriage was performed, Patsey's family joined a wagon train moving south. That bond was taken 27 Oct., 1800. It was the late fall. Crops had been gathered, and the family was prepared to join the first wagon train moving south. Her family stopped in Rowan County, NC, long enough for Fielding to come and the couple was married there. Joseph Beadles did not remain in NC. He bought his first land in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, in 1802. Another possibility is that Patsey Beadles was not yet twenty-one years old; and, without her father's signature on the bond, the minister or the court official in Va. declined to perform the ceremony.
We know that Patsey and Fielding returned to Halifax County, Va.; because Fielding's name appears in the personal property tax list for 1802. Then, in 1803, the couple became
On 26 Nov., 1803, judgment was rendered against Fielding on a charge of slandering Thomas Powell and his wife; and Fielding was fined fifty pounds. This man probably was the same Thomas Powell who was in Amherst County, Va., on 26 May, 1785, when he signed as surety on a marriage bond for Jean Dillard, the daughter of Joseph Dillard, Fielding's half brother, when Jean and Henry Stoneham were contemplating marriage. Interestingly, in Thomas Powell's will made in Halifax on 2 June, 1813, he named a daughter Patsey Dillard.
Fielding, Patsey, and one-year-old Joseph must have made the trip to Oglethorpe County, Ga, in the winter of 1804, after crops had been harvested. Fielding made his first purchase of land in Oglethorpe County on 5 February, 1805, when he bought 270 acres on Clouds Creek. There he and Patsey built their home very near the lands of the Cherokee and Creek Indians, and about two miles from the Cherokee Corner Indian Trading Post. That trading post is the site of present-day Cherokee Corner Methodist church where their descendants hold their reunion every August. Fielding continued to purchase land up until the year he died. They added nine additional children to their family, but Fielding did not live to see one of those children reach maturity or marry. Fielding died between 1818-1819 when his oldest child, Joseph, was only fifteen. He was buried about 100 yards from his home at a site that became the Dillard Family Cemetery. Martha Patsey was awarded a widow's dower of 200 acres from Fielding's estate on 22 Oct., 1819. (Oglethorpe County Probate Court Minute Book L, p. 27). Following her death between 1826 and 1831, Patsey was buried at the same place. At least three of their children and many grandchildren were buried there. Beneath the vines and trees that obscure the place today, they all rest--awaiting the Resurrection. Their ten children are listed below:
1) Joseph Beadles Dillard was born 1803, Va married 12 August, 1830, Elizabeth Ann Baldwin, nee Ellington. They are my father's ancestors.
2) Susan Dillard born about 1804, Ga., married 13 Dec., 1825, Jesse King.
3) Mary Dillard born about 1805, Ga., married 18 Dec., 1828, Wilkes County, Ga., Littleberry (Little Berry) King.
4) Sarah Ann Dillard born 9 Aug., 1806, Ga., married 1st. 6 Dec., 1830, Oglethorpe County, Cornelius Furcron. Cornelius died 20 Jan., 1837, and Sarah Ann married 2nd. Felix Hardeman. No children by Hardeman but three Furcron children survived to maturity, with many descendants identified. Sarah Ann and Cornelius Furcron were my mother's ancestors.
5) Richard Dillard born 10 Oct., 1808, Ga., died 12 May, 1875, buried Oglethorpe
6) Elizabeth Dillard reported to have been a twin of 2) Susan Dillard. Died at birth about 1804.
7) Harriet Dillard born about 1810, Ga., married 14 Feb., 1843, Mordecai Edwards, as his third wife. Harriet died 1 Jan., 1844. No children by Mordecai and Harriet.
8) Juriah Hepsibah Dillard (Lucinda Dillard) born 12 Sept., 1813, Ga., married 1st 8 Dec., 1831, William Furcron, brother of Cornelius Furcron. William and Juriah had one child, William Cornelius Furcron, born 23 July, 1833, Ga., before William Furcron died 17 Dec., 1833. Juriah Hepsibah married 2nd Lorenzo Dow Furgerson, lived Oglethorpe County for few years, moved to Madison County, Ga.
9) Martha Custis Dillard born 2 May, 1814, Ga., married 2 April, 1832, John Ferdinand Phinizy. Two children born to this union, John Ferdinand Phinizy II and Martha Phinizy, but no grandchildren known.
10) Fielding Dillard II born March, 1815, married 18 March, 1841, Clarke County, Ga., America Frances Chaffin born 23 Jan., 1826. Fielding died 18 Oct., 1896, and America Frances died 30 Dec., 1909. Both buried Dillard family cemetery, Arnoldsville, Ga. Thirteen children were born to this marriage, and most of their descendants have been identified.
The most distinguished descendants of Fielding Dillard and Patsey Beadles were those of their granddaughter Ina Dillard, the thirteenth child of Fielding Dillard II and America Frances Chaffin. Ina, a school teacher, married a young attorney named Richard Brevard Russell, and they were the parents of fifteen children, thirteen of whom lived to maturity, and two of whom are living today. Richard Brevard Russell became Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. All of their children excelled in their chosen professions. The best known of their children, of course, was United States Senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. who became Governor of Georgia, and later served as United States Senator from Georgia from 1933 until his death in 1971. Ina Dillard Russell wrote many letters during her lifetime. They were long, newsy letters to her children, cousins, and friends. The family has collected and preserved more than a thousand of those treasures. Their Granddaughter Sally Russell Warrington of Warwick, England, the daughter of the late Dr. Alexander Brevard Russell of Winder, is working with the University of Georgia Press on a volume that will include many, if not all, of those letters. This will be a great contribution to the Russell and Dillard families. It will give us a better understanding of this remarkable lady, concerning whom Sally wrote: "Born in a time when the greatest career choice for a woman was motherhood, she took that career to the top in stellar fashion: thirteen living
To keep our hopes alive concerning George Dillard, I think we need to adopt one of the elements of the archaeologist' s philosophy which says, "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." I am naive enough to believe that someday, somewhere, someone will discover that thread that links George Dillard, the Immigrant, to at least some of his children.
In conclusion, let me say this. Life was not kind to George nor to his great grandson Fielding, if our theory is correct. However, both men showed qualities worthy of our admiration. I think as they look down from their lofty homes upon the parade of their descendants, they are generally proud; and each man would raise his thumb in approval. Their descendants, whether stonecutters or statesmen, have served well in their chosen fields. They have responded and many died when called to defend their country. Whether as privates or high ranking officers they served well in combat. If either George or Fielding were asked today: "What word of advice would you give to our generation to help strengthen and preserve the family unit?" I think his reply might be this: "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
Mildred Elizabeth Bishop (Mrs. James Howard Bishop), The Fielding Dillard Family, 1634-1979. Lella Dillard Whipple, "It's Great to Be a Dillard Because the Dillards are Great People," a speech before the Dillard Reunion, Cherokee Corner, Oglethorpe Co., Ga., 20 Aug., 1972.
Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Land Patents and Grants, Vol. 1, 1623-1666; Vol. II, 1666-1695; Vol. III, 1695-1731.
Michael F. Doran, Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia 1634-1895, Iberian Publishing Company, 548 Cedar Creek Dr., Athens, Ga. 30605.
Robert Y. Clay, Archivist at Virginia State Library Richmond, Virginia, in lecture at Augusta, Georgia, 3 Oct., 1986.
Dorothy Dillard Hughes, "Genealogy of the First Four Generations of Dillard in America," (c) 1995.
Elaine Saunders, "Tracing your British Ancestors Through Their Trades and Occupations," in Ancestry Newsletter, Vol. X, Number 6, Nov.-Dec., 1992, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Letter to CMD dated 7 April, 1993, from Director Anthony J. Camp, Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London, ECIM 7BA, advising that admission records for Grays Inn, Middle Temple Inn, and Lincoln Inn had been checked without finding the name of George Dillard, under several spellings.
Letter to CMD dated 6 May, 1993, from 1. G. Murray, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple's
Paula S. Felder, Forgotten Companions, Historic Publications of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1982, pp. 14, 53, 136.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 2, p. 148, citing military records of George Washington at Library of Congress.
Dr. Howard V. Jones, "Thomas Dillard of Spotsylvania County," p. 3.
William Armstrong Crozier, Virginia County Records-Spotsylvania 1721-1800, Vol. 1, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Copy of Thomas Dillard's will, received Jan., 1987, from Clerk of Circuit Court, Spotsylvania CH, Va.
Copy of William Holloway's will, received Feb., 1989, from Clerk of Circuit Court, Spotsylvania CH, Va.
Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florence Love, The Personal Property Tax List for the Year 1787, for Halifax County, Va.,p.418.
Sally Russell Warrington (Mrs. Les Warrington), "The Russell Family Herald," June 24, 1995.
Carlton M. Dillard, Back to Old Virginia with Dillard, Daniel and Kin, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1993.