BIOGRAPHIES:  NORMAN AND SHUMATE FAMILIES, HARRISON CO, WV
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Compiled by the late V Layne Moffett

                                           CLEMENT NORMAN

The earliest record of Clement Norman in that part of VA which, in 1758, 
became Fauquier County, is to be found in a 1751 "List of Taxpayers in Elk 
Run and vicinity," in Prince William County.  The ancestry of Clement Norman 
of Fauquier Co has not been determined, but it seems probable that he was a 
descendant, possibly the grandson, of Thomas Norman of Stafford County, who 
by will dated 1709 bequeathed to a son Clement land on Accokeek Creek in 
Stafford County, and which this Clement in 1726, while residing in 
Westmoreland County, sold to Augustine Washington, the father of General 
George Washington.  In 1796 Clement Norman received 1320 pounds of tobacco as 
payment for his services as a trooper in the Prince William Militia during 
the French and Indian War.  Clement married Jemimah Shumate, daughter of John 
and Judith Shumate of Fauquier Co.  On 29 July 1763 he leased 200 acres of 
land in Fauquier from Thomas Lord Fairfax.  This land was leased for and 
during the natural lives of the said Clement Norman, Jemimah Norman his wife, 
and Isaac Norman his son.  About 1808 Clement Norman along with his wife 
Jemimah, sons William and Shumate, and daughter Lettis moved from Fauquier to 
Harrison County, where Clement's son Bailey Norman had resided for some 
years.  They settled on a 150-acre farm on Blue Lick Run, a branch of Elk 
Creek.  On 30 May 1814, Clement and Jemimah Norman "for and in consideration 
of the natural love and affection we bear William Norman, Shumate Norman and 
Lettis Norman" gave to the said William, Shumate and Lettis, what appears to 
have been all or most of their personal belongings, other than wearing 
apparal, and in addition gave to William and Shumate 150 acres of land, to be 
equally divided between them.  Clement and Jemimah Bailey Norman had the 
following children:

1.  Judith "Judy" - married James Scurlock in 1785.
2.  Molly - married Jacob Weaver in 1792.
3.  Sarah - married John Dennison in 1795.
4.  Tabitha - married Ephraim Jeffries in 1799.
5.  Shumate - married Nancy Garrett in 1815.
6.  Bailey - married Tacy Tyson in 1814.
7.  Lettis - married Benjamin Romine in 1815.
The above are the only positively identified children of Clement and Jemimah 
Norman whose marriage records have been found.  No marriage record for Isaac 
Norman, probably the oldest son, nor for William Norman, who accompanied his 
parents to Harrison County, have been found.

                                            JOHN SHUMATE I

Very little is known of John Shumate I, immigrant progenitor of the Shumate 
family in Virginia.  Such records as have been found would seem to indicate 
that, as John de la Chaumette, John Shumate was one of the estimated three or 
four hundred thousand Huguenots who fled France following the revocation of 
the Edict of Nantes in 1685.  Following his flight from France it appears 
that John Shumate emigrated to London where, as John de la Chaumette, he is 
named in the following item in the King James II Bounty Papers of Sept.-Nov. 
1687.
     
               "To Nicholas Hayward, Notari, for ye passage to Virginia of 
Lewis Renyaud, Anne his wife, Francis, Lewis, Mary, and Sara Renaud their 
children, & Benjamin Renyaud, Mary his wife, Marianne and Mary their children 
& John de la Chaumette."

Just when John Shumate and Lewis Renaud (Renoe, Reno) arrived in VA is not 
known.  The earliest VA records of Lewis Renoe is on a land division 
agreement between William Allen (an ancestor of George W Moffett) and his 
brother John Allen.  Although no record of John Shumate's arrival in VA has 
been found, it seems probable that he arrived at the same time as Lewis 
Renoe, in the 1680s or 1690s.  As no wife is named to accompany him, in the 
Bounty papers, it seems probable that he married in VA sometime prior to 
1708.  This date being based on his son John being at least 16 years old in 
1724 as shown by his listing in a list of tobacco tenders in Overwharton 
Parish for the year 1724.  John Shumate had the following children:

1.  John - born prior to 1708; married Judith Bailey.
2.  Samuel - born about 1710; may have married Lucy Blackwell.
3.  Daniel - born about 1712; probably died in 1784.

On 10 October 1723 John Shumate (shown in deed as John dila Shumate of 
Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co VA) purchased 200 acres of land in later 
Fauquier Co VA from William Allen.  No record of the death of John Shumate I 
has been found, however, it appears that the 200 acres of land mentioned 
above descended to his sons John and Daniel upon his death.


                                           JOHN SHUMATE II

Born before 1708 the son of John Shumate the immigrant, John Shumate II 
married about 1728 or 1729.  While no record of his marriage has been found, 
it has long been a family tradition supported by several published works, 
that his wife was Judith Bailey.  This belief is supported by their naming of 
one of their sons Bailey Shumate.  In 1732, John Shumate II (shown as John 
Shumack in the Minutes of the Colonial Council) took part in an uprising in 
Prince William County which was directed against what some of the planters 
considered unfair tobacco laws, and in 1760 John and his brother Joshua 
Shumate were in Court charged with trespass, assault and battery agianst 
Martin Pickett, a charge that was dismissed.  Except for those minor brushes 
with authority John Shumate and his wife Judith apparently settled to the 
quiet life of a planter, on the one hundred acres of land he had inherited 
from his father.  In 1770 John purchased from his brother Daniel the one 
hundred acres Daniel had inherited from their father.  John and Judith 
Shumate had the following children:

1.  William - married Anne McCormack, daughter of Stephen McCormack of 
Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co VA.

2.  John - married 1st Winifred Oxford; married 2nd Susanna Crump, daughter 
of Benjamin and Mary Crump.

3.  Joshua - lived in Culpeper Co VA; wife's name unknown.
4.  Daniel - married Sarah Ann -----; lieutenant in Fauquier Co VA Militia, 
Rev War.
5.  James - lived in Hampshire Co (W)V in 1786.
6.  Thomas - probably married Elizabeth Shepard, widow of John of Fauquier Co.
7.  Bailey - married Mary Dodson.
8.  Lettice (or Lettis) - married at the time her father's will was made in 
1783; husband's name is unknown.

9.  Jemimah - married Clement Norman before 1763; moved to Harrison Co (W)V 
about 1809.

John Shumate's will, proved 25 October 1784, and recorded in Fauquier Co Will 
Bk II pp 47 & 48, names his wife Judith as executrix, and his children as 
William, John, Joshua, Daniel, Thomas, James, Bailey, Lettice and Jemima.