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Chronology of Some Visage/Vissage Records

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Date Place Event
15-18 January 1568 France One Jacques, the son of Jacques Visaige, a carpenter of Drano0utre, examined under torture and was executed on the 18th February, 1568, being burnt alive, because as was considered proved by his evidence under torture, he was at Sandwich, where the conspiracy to kill the priests and the papists was asserted to have been entered into, and that he had taken money, powder, and lead to the brigands of Mont des Cats, and because he had assisted in the murder of certain priests.
1645 - 1680 England Various christenings, marriages, deaths - Walloon or Strangers Huguenot Church, Canterbury, Kent, England
1680 - 1718 England Various christenings, marriages, deaths - Threadneedle French Huguenot Church, London, London, England and other churches in London.
1702 England Thomas Vissage is christened at St. George the Marytr Church, Southwark, Surrey, England.
1722 St. Christopher's Island Thomas Visage, age, 20, Bound to John Dykes for service on plantation on St. Christopher's Island.
May, 1736 Maryland Thomas Visage arrives via ship at Port of Baltimore.
1755-1758 Maryland Births of Jacob, James, and Jane Visage, children of Thomas and Hannah Visage, St. George Parish, Baltimore Co Maryland (St. George's Parish Registers 1689-1793, Reamy)
1780 North Carolina Jacob's son Thomas born in North Carolina (1850 Pickens Co SC Census)
1782 North Carolina Jacob Visage, with others, petitions Governor Thomas Burke to be forgiven for siding with Lord Cornwallis during the Revoluntary War (North Carolina State Papers, Vol. 16)
1784 North Carolina Tax records, Caswell District, Orange County, North Carolina. (Orange County Taxpayers 1784-1793).
1786 North Carolina Jacob Visage served as bondsman for marriage of Daniel McDaniel and Mary Horsey in Orange Co NC. (Orange County Marriages 1779-1869)
1787 North Carolina Tax records for Jacob Visage, Caswell District, Orange County, North Carolina. (Orange County Taxpayers 1784-1793).
1790 South Carolina Census: Pendleton County SC. Jacob Visage 1 male over 16; 1 male under 16, 1 female
9 Sept 1790 South Carolina Will of John Linley, yeoman of Pendleton Co SC. All my property real and personal to be sold, except what is deemed necessary for the use of my wife and children, and the monies to be used to discharge all of my debts and the residue of said property to be equally divided between my wife, Sarah Linley and my unmarried children. Exec William Pyle, Jr. , Sarah Linley. Signed John Linley Wit. John Robinson, Joel Halbert, Jacob Visage. (Pendleton County SC Deed Books A and B.)
1791 Maryland John Vissage appears on a list of insolvents for county and road taxes in Harford County Maryland. (Henry Peden's book Inhabitatnts of Harford County Maryland 1791-1800)
1792 South Carolina Jacob's son James born in South Carolina (1850 Crawford Co GA census)
14 Dec 1792 South Carolina

Plat for 543 acres on Twenty-three mile creek, Ninety Six district, Surveyed by Robert McCann (S.C. Dept. of Archives and History Alphabetical Index, microfilm)

1793 South Carolina Land grant 501 acres. Vol. 31, Class 2 (Index to South Carolina Land Grants 1784-1800)
1793 South Carolina Jacob's son William born in South Carolina (1850 Union Co GA census)
7 Aug 1794 South Carolina Jacob Visage and Elizabeth, his wife, to John Miller, for £ 4 for 150 acres on the SE side of 23 mile creek. Signed Jacob Visage, Elizabeth (X) Visage. Wit James Tuffnell, Jonathan Hicks. James Tuffnell made oath to William Nevill 20 Sept 1794
20 Sep 1794 South Carolina Jacob Visage & Elizabeth, his wife, for £20 to James Tuffnell 200 acres on Twenty three mile creek. (Pendleton County SC Deed Books A and B.)
9 Nov 1795 South Carolina Jacob Visage and Elizabeth, his wife, to James Doyle for £ 10 stg. for 90 ac. on 23 Mile Creek, part of a tract granted to Visage, 2 Jan 1793 by Wm. Moultrie. (Pendleton District, S.C. Deeds 1790-1806 (Willie).
9 Nov 1795 South Carolina Jacob Visage and Elizabeth, his wife, to James Doyle for £ 10 stg. for 90 ac. on 23 Mile Creek, part of a tract granted to Visage, 2 Jan 1793 by Wm. Moultrie. Signed: Jacob Visage, Elizabeth (her mark) Visage. Wit James Tufnell, George Tucker (?). James Tufnell made oath to Wm. Milwee, J.P. 11 Nov 1793
1798 Maryland James Vissage appears on a tax list as an occupant in a house owned by William Stump in Deer Creeki Lower Hundred, Harford County, Maryland. (Henry Peden's book Inhabitatnts of Harford County Maryland 1791-1800)
1 Apr 1799 South Carolina Jacob Visage, Abbeville District for $5.00 to Benjamin Nicholson of Pendleton Dist 60 acres of the 543 acre tract of land granted on 7 Jan 1793.Recorded Bk F., No 5, p. 501 bd John Miller, James Tuffnell, James Doyle, Martin. Wit. Hezekiah Posey, Thomas Visage. Thomas Visage made oath to G.W. Earle, D.CC. 1 Apr 1799 (A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records,. Wooley. Note: this source gives date of grant as 1773, but a search of records around that date show that this is a typographical error and that 1793 is the correct year.)
27 Nov 1799 South Carolina Benjamin Nicholson for $10 sold to William Pasmore 543 acres, granted Jacob Visage bd. by James Doyle, James Tuffnell, John Miller, Richard Robinson. Date 27 Nov 1799. Signed Benjamine (X) Nicholson. Wit Wm. Sims, Hugh Rogers, Jonathan (O) West.
1800 South Carolina Census: South Carolina. He is not recorded even though other of his 1790 neighbors in Pendleton Co SC are.
28 June 1804 South Carolina William Davidson, John Davidson and Andrew Thomas Davidson, heirs of James Davidson dec'd of Mecklenburg Co N.C. for $10 sold to James Tuffnell of Pendleton Dist, 20 acres "not to exce 30 ac. part of 835 acres" granted by Wm. Moultrie to sd. William, John, and Andrew Thomas Davidson, children of James Davidson, dec'd. 4 Sept 1786, being SE corner of a tract of which Tuffnell claims by deed made by Jacob Visage. Signed: Andrew T. Davidson, for self and Wm. Davidson and John Davidson. Wit. Samuel Cherry, Moses Liddell
1810 South Carolina Census: Pendleton Co SC. Jacob Vessage 1 male over 45, 1 male 16-26, 1 female over 45. Thomas Vissage 1 male 16-26, 1 female 16-26, 2 females 0-10 Pendleton District, S.C. Deeds 1790-1806 (Willie).
1814 South Carolina John Visage (son of Jacob?) died in War of 1812 at Coosa River.

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