Sussex County, DE. - Levin Okey (1760-1829, Revolutionary War Soldier *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn K. Shearer and Judy S. Schaeffer *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** Levin Okey (1760-1829, Revolutionary War Soldier from Sussex County, Delaware, to Monroe County, Ohio By Carolyn K. Shearer and Judy S. Schaeffer, two of his fifth great-granddaughters, expanding on "Okey-Hazzard Family, Delaware to Monroe County, Ohio" by Catherine Fedorchak and K. T. H. McFarland, III, ("National Genealogical Quarterly" Vol 58, #2, June 1970) 1760, 22 Oct - Levin Okey born Sussex County, DE, son of Thomas Okey and Elizabeth Stockley. (Birthdate from tombstone and family records- see article by Fedorchak) 1773, Apr 15 - Deed, John Hall from John Stephenson and Adonijah Little, both of Sussex, 150 acres, 'Harefield's Folly'- "to a line laid off for Thomas Okey" (Sussex, DE, Deed Book M12, p332) 1778 - Levin Okey, private, 1st class, Capt. Layfield's Company, Snow Hill, Worchester County, MD (NSDAR GRC, Worchester County, folio #127, p45) 1778, 2 Feb - Leavin Ockley, William Ockley, Oath of Allegiance, Return of James Selby, Worchester Co, MD (NSDAR GRC, folio #127, p9) 1780, 2 Feb - Levin Oakey married Esther Williams, Lewis and Cool Spring Presbyterian Church, Sussex Co, DE. (Lewis and Cool Spring records, p130) [Note: Will of Littleton Williams, Worchester County, MD, Will Book 37, p 152, written 10 Jan 1769, proven 22 May 1769, names wife Easter, children Keziah, Ann, Samuel, Solomon, Betty, Easter and John. Plus son Elijah. MD Calendar of Wills, Vol 14, 83. This is the only Easter/Esther Williams found in MD or DE in this time period. cks/jss] 1780, 7 Apr - Levin Okey appointed administrator of the estate of Thomas Okey "by special permission of the Orphan's Court." Wit: Philips Kollock, Penelope Kollock. (Sussex Register of Wills, R6-4545. Note: No record of this found in the Sussex Orphan Court records.)[Note: Phillips Kollock married (1) Comfort, daughter of John Wiltbank and Mary Stockley, and (2) Penelope Rodney. Phillips was appointed Clerk of the Sussex County Court 1770. He may have witnessed as a relative of Elizabeth Stockley Okey or as Clerk of the Court. cks] 1780, May 3 - Deed - Elizabeth Oakey, widow of Thomas Oakey, late of Sussex County, deceased, from Hugh and William Stevenson, sons of John Stevenson. John Stevenson had originally sold to Thomas Oakey who died before deed was recorded, 106 acres for 27 pounds. Wit: Rhoad Shankland, Robert Mariner. (Sussex Deed Book M-12, p326) 1780, May 3 - Deed - Moses Cox and wife Rhoda, to Elias Johnson. Wit: Levin Okey. (op cit, p332) 1782, Apr 20 - Levin Okey married Esther Hazzard ("Okey-Hazzard Family, Delaware to Monroe County, Ohio" Catherine Foreaker Fedorchak and K. T. H. McFarland, III ("National Genealogical Quarterly" Vol 58, #2, June 1970) 1782, May 8 - Deed, Hugh Stevenson to Abel Nottingham. Wit: Levin Okey (Sussex Deed Book M12, p 446) 1782 - Sussex County Tax List, Broadkill Hundred - Levin Oakey. Assessment, 5 (number of white persons in household. Levin and Esther and 3 others) Lewes and Rehobeth Hundred -Thomas Oakey. Assessment, 2. (Elizabeth being taxed on Thomas' estate. Who is with her?) 1784 Sussex County Tax List, Broadkill Hundred - Levin Oakey - Assessment, 4 1784, Feb 4 - Deed - Elizabeth Oakey, widow of Thomas, to William Welch, yeoman of Sussex, land in the Forest of the Broadkill Hundred, 1/2 of a 106 acre parcel, on Harefield's Branch. Land conveyed to Elizabeth Oakey by Hugh and William Stevenson, 3 May 1780. (Sussex County Deed Book B, p254) 1786, Feb 27 - Deed - Isaac Atkinson, cordwainer from William Welch and wife Rachel of Sussex, Tract of land in the Forrest of Broadkill, 100 acres adj. the road leading over Doe (Cow?) Bridge to Philadelphia, on the west side of Hairfield's Branch. Tract conveyed by deed of sale from William and Hugh Stevenson to Elizabeth Oakey dated 3 May 1780, 106 acres. Said Elizabeth conveyed 26 Feb 1784, one half to William Welch. (Sussex Deed Book B, folio 254) 1790 - Reconstructed 1790 Census - Angola and Indian River Hundred - W[illia]m Oaky. Broadkill Hundred, Sussex - Elizabeth Oakey, Lewes and Rehobeth Hundred - Robert, Saunders and Thomas Oakey ("Reconstructed 1790 Census of Delaware" Leon DeValinger, Jr., National Genealogical Society, 1962, pg 55, 61, 76,) 1793, May 10 - Elizabeth Oakey, Sussex County, to Isaac Atkins of same, yeoman, for 20.4 pounds - Land on the NW side of Hairfield's Branch, part of a tract laid out to William Coulter. 54 acres. Wit: N. Waples, Stephen Coston, Jonathan Gordon. (Sussex Deed Book , p554). 1798, Feb 12 -Deed - Thomas Tannehill and wife Martha to Levin Okey, 112 acres, near Cheat River Hill and Sandy Creek, "part of the tract Tannehill lives on" 127.10 pounds, Virginia currency. Delivered Apr 1800 (Monogalia Deed Book OS 1: 317) 1800 census - Monogalia County (W)VA, Lavan Okee, Brandon District. 1800, Feb - Monogalia County Court - Thomas Tannehill and Levin Okey summoned to answer Jonathan Davis, plea of debt. L2.9. Note dated 23 May 1798. ("Monongalia County W(VA) Records of the District, Superior and County Courts" Vol 4, Melba P. Zinn, p113) 1800, Jun 9 - Deed- Levin Okey and wife Esther to William John, 112 acres on Cheat River. "Tract on which Okey now lives." $333 1/3. Delivered 27 Nov 1801. (Monongalia Deed Book OS 2:165) 1802, Jul 10 - Monongalia County,(W)VA Delinquents in Alex. Brandon's District, Levin Okley, 2 tithes 1802, Nov 2 - Monongalia County (W)VA - store account of John Steele and Augustus Warringen - Levin Okey and Henry Barrickman. Debt encountered 5 Apr 1802 for many small items, apparently for saddlemaking (Zinn, p 296-7) 1808, Oct 18. Levin Okey of Belmont County OH purchased land in Range 3, Township 4, Section 21. ("Purchasers of Land in Southeastern OH" 1808, Belmont County, OH - tax list, Kirkwood Township - Levin Okey 1805-1812, Monroe County, OH - 'Centre Township - 'Several improvements were made between the years 1805 and 1812. Between these years John Baker, John Winland, Levin Okey and others settled and made improvements....Levin Okey on the farm now owned by his grandson; Woodman Okey and Peter Palmer, on the Patterson or Pope place; Levin Okey was accompanied, it is believed, by some of his sons, and all of them soon became residents of the township. They were Cornelius, Arthur, Woodman, James and Henry, none of whom now survive. .. The descendents of Levin Okey have had, and still have, a prominent place in the social and political history of the county as well as the township; he, himself, was for many years a justice of the peace in Belmont county and was a member of the first board of commissioners for that county under the constitution of 1802. After his removal to this county, his daughter Sarah died in 1812 and was buried in the present cemetery at Woodsfield, being the first interment there, and probably the first in the township. So few were then the inhabitants that but seven persons were at the funeral, apart from the immediate family. In marked contrast was the funeral of her father Levin Okey, who died June 21, 1829, at which there were over two hundred persons. Elizabeth Okey, mother of Levin Okey, died February 7, 1824, in the 103rd year of her age, and his wife on the 7th of February 1829. These were amongst the first deaths in the township....Cornelius Okey, (father of Judge William Okey and Judge John W. Okey), and Hannah Weir were married in Belmont County February 6, 1805, by David Ruble, justice of the peace, and moved to this township about the year 1812.' ("Historical Hand-Atlas...Monroe County, Ohio" Hardesty p 214) [No date on title page, appears to be 19th century] 1809, Oct 5 - William Smith and Elizabeth Nofsinger married by Levin Okey ("Family Research in Monroe" Fedorchak, Vol 2, p45. Note - Lots of material on Levin and his descendents in Volumes 1 and 2) 1811, Sep 23. Levin Okey of Belmont purchased land in R5-T4-S30 1812, Monroe County, OH - Levin Okey, first Justice of the Peace 1812, Jun 1. Jeremiah Fairhurst of Belmont purchased land in 5-4-29 1814, Monroe County - Levin Okey patented part of Range 5,Township 4, Section 30 1815, Mar 20. Levin Okey of Belmont purchased land in 5-4-36 1815, Jun 19. Levin Okey of Monroe purchased land in 5-4-11 1816, Mar 25. Arthur Okey of Monroe County purchased 5-4-24. 1816, Jun 12. Levin Okey of Monroe purchased land in 6-4-6 1817, Monroe County tax list, Levin Okey, 149 acres, Range 5, Twp 4, Sec 30, [next line is Levin Okey, 'ditto' 149 acres, same description] 1817, Monroe County - " A list of new entries from the seventh of March 1816 to March 1817." Levin Okey, NE and SE 1/4 of Sec 30, Twp 4, Range 5, each for 149 acres. 1818, Monroe County tax list- Resident land and tax in the county -149 acres twice 1818, same list - John Gray, 87.50 acres, Range 3, Twp 3, Sec 9. 1818, same list - signed by Cornelius Okey, Clerk to the Commissioners 1819, May 24. Woodman Okey of Monroe purchased land in 5-4-20. 1819, tax list - Jeremiah Fairhurst, 159 acres, Range 5, Twp 4, Sec 29. NE 1/4 John Gray, 79 acres, 5-5-36 Levin Okey, 149 acres, 5-4-30 Levin Okey, 49 acres, 5-4-30 Levin Okey, 122 acres, 5-5-32 Signed by Cornelius Okey, Clerk Following census records are from "Federal Census, Monroe County, 1820-1840" by Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, Closson Press, Apollo, PA, 1996) 1820 Census, Monroe County, OH Centre Township, Woodsfield, p2 James Okey 1 male 0-10, 1 m 10-16, 1 m 26-45; 2 females 0-10, 1 f 16-26 Centre Township, pp 3, 6, 9, 10, 12 Cornelius Okey, 1 male 0-10, 3 m 10-16, 1 male 26-45; 4 f 0-10, 1 f 26-45. James Philips 3 m 0-10, 1 m 10-16, 1 m 26-45; 1 f 10-16, 1 f 26-45. Arthur Okey, 2 m 0-10, 1m 18-26, 1 m 26-45; 1 f 0-10, 1 f 26-45. John Gray 3 m 0-10, 1 m 10-16, 1 m 16-18, 1 m 18-26, 1 m 26-45; 1 f 0-10, 1 f 10-16, 1 f 26-45. Levin Okey, 1 m 0-10, 1 m 18-26, 1 m >45; 1 f 16-26, 2 f >45. Woodman Okey 2 m 0-10, 1 m 26-45; 1 f 0-10, 1 f 16-26. 1820 Tax List of Monroe County, OH Heirs of Jeremiah Fairhurst- 159 acres, Range 5- Twp 4-Sec 29 John Gray, 97 acres, 5-3-36 Levin Okey, 122 acres, 5-5-32 Levin Okey, 80 acres, 5-4-30 Woodman Okey, 80 acres, 5-4-30 Cornelius Okey, 74 acres, 5-4-30 Cornelius Okey, 28 acres, 5-4-30 Cornelius Okey, 10 acres, 5-4-30 Arthur Okey, 92 acres, 5-4-30 1820, Monroe County - Levin purchased additional land from Nathan Hollister 1821, Monroe County tax list - Heirs of Jeremiah Fairhurst, 5-4-29, 159 acres Levin Okey, 5-4-30, 62 acres " " 5-5-32, 122 acres " " 5-4-36, 103 acres Arthur Okey, 5-4-11, 92 acres Cornelius Okey, 5-4-30, 74 acres " " 5-4-30, 28 acres " " 5-4-24, 10 acres Woodman Okey, 5-4-30, 80 acres 1822, Monroe County, tax list - heirs of Jeremiah Fairhu (sic) 5-4-29, 159 acres 1824, Feb 7 - Elizabeth (Stockley) Okey, mother of Levin, died Monroe County. 'in the 103rd year of her age'. Buried Pioneer Cemetery, Woodsfield, OH. [This would make her born c1721, but her actual date of birth from St. George's Church Records, Sussex County, DE, is 1736.] 1826, Monroe County tax list - James Phillips, Centre Twp, 1 horse 1 cow 1829, Jun 21 - Levin Okey died. Buried Pioneer Cemetery, Woodsfield, Monroe County, OH. 1829, Oct 9 - Esther (Hazzard) Okey, widow of Levin, died. Buried Woodsfield. 1830 Census, Monroe County, OH Center (sic) Township p 20,21, 22 James Okey 1 m 0-5, 1 m 20-30, 1 f 0-5, 1 f 10-15, 1 f 20-30. Henry Okey 1 m 0-5, 2 m 5-10, 1 m 30-40; 1 f 0-5, 1 f 10-15, 1 f 20-30 Arthur Okey 1 m 0-5, 2 m 5-10, 2 m 10-15, 1 m 40-50; 1 f 0-5, 1 f 15-20, 1 f 40-50 Nancy Philips 1 m 10-15, 1 m 15-20, 2 m 20-30; 3 f 5-10, 1 15-20, 1 40-50. Cornelius Okey, 1 m 0-5, 2 m 5-10, 2 m 10-15, 1 m 15-20, 1 m 40-50; 1 f 0-5, 1 f 5-10, 1 f 10-15, 2 f 15-20, 1 f 40-50. Franklin Township, p 23 Woodman Okey 1 m 0-5, 1 m 5-10, 1 m 10-15, 1 m 30-40; 2 g 0-5, 1 f 10-15, 1 f 20-30, 1 f 30-40. Wayne Township, p 42 John Gray 1 m 0-5, 1 m 10-15, 1 m 15-20, 1 m 40-50; 2 f 0-5, 1 f 40-50 John Gray 1 m 0-5, 1 m 20-30; 1 f 5-10, 1 f 20-30. 1833, Jan 14. David Fairhurst of Monroe purchased land in 5-4-29. 1833, Oct 30. Nancy Phillips of Monroe purchased land in 5-4-29 1840 Monroe County OH Census Bethel Township, p 52 Woodman Okey 2 m 10-15, 1 m 15-20, 1 m 40-50; 1 f 5-10, 1 f 10-15, 1 f 40-50. Centre Township, p 54, 57, 58, 59 George Okey 1 m 0-5, 1 m 20-30; 2 f 0-5, 1 f 20-30. Jere.(miah) Okey 2 m 0-5, 1 m 20-30; 1 f 20-30. David Fairhurst 1 m 20-30, 1 f 15-20, 1 f 20-30, 1 f 50-60. Cornelius Okey 1 m 10-15, 2 m 15-20, 1 m 20-30, 1 m 50-60; 1 f 5-10, 1 f 10-15, 1 f 15-20, 2 f 20-30, 1 f 50-60. Sophia Okey 1 m 10-15, 1 m 15-20, 2 20-30; 1 f 10-15, 1 f 15-20, 1 f 40-50 Centre Township, Town of Woodsfield, p 59 Henry Okey 1 m 20-30; 1 f 0-5, 1 f 15-20. Perry Township, p 83 James Okey 2 m 5-10, 1 m 10-15, 1 m 30-40; 1 f 0-5, 1 f 10-15, 1 f 20-30. Salem Township, p90 Job Philips 1 m 20-30 Wayne Township John Gray 1 m 10-15, 1 m 50-60, 2 f 15-20, 1 f 50-60. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Children of Levin Okey and Esther (Hazzard) Okey, all except Sarah born Sussex County, DE. 1. Cornelius, born 3 Jan 1783, married 6 Feb 1805, Belmont County, OH, Hannah Weir. 2. Nancy, born 17 Nov 1784, married (1) 6 Mar 1806, Belmont County, OH, Jeremiah Fairhurst (a1785 VA -1819 Belmont or Monroe County, OH). m(2) c 1819, James Phillips (a1790-1827 Monroe).She died 1852 Monroe County. 3. Arthur, born 5 Oct 1786. 4. Hannah, born 1 Aug 1788, married 8 Jan 1808, Belmont County, OH, John Gray. 5. James, born 2 Jul 1790, died a1826 Monroe County, OH. 6. Woodman, born 9 May 1792, 7. Henry, born 5 Apr 1795, 8. Sarah, born 2 Nov 1799, Monongalia County, VA. Carolyn K. Shearer 3125 Faber Drive Falls Church, VA 22044 703-534-1505 Judith Staudt Schaeffer 599 Grayson Street Springfield, VA 22150 703-451-6776 Levin Okey (1760-1829) Revolutionary Soldier of Delaware, Virginia and Ohio