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George Parrott:
George (b ca 1760 -) is the earliest known ancestor of a group of Parrotts that traces back to Mathews county (formerly Kingston parish of Gloucester county, Virginia. Based on Y-DNA, this group is part of a larger family that originated from a Lawrence Perrott who settled in Kingston parish, Gloucester county, in the late 1600s and started the lineage. Where George fits in to this larger group remains unknown.

Overall, there are no records that predate the famiiy's arrival in Alabama, so there is no written documentation to verify George's existence. Thus, the identification of George and his wife Susannah are based on oral tradition. His descendant, Robert Parrott, states "the oral history maintained by my father's oldest brother Dr Joseph B Parrott, (1870-1936), was that Robert George Parrott's father was George Parrott who married Susanna Vines."

Several trees on Ancestry list George's father as Thomas Enoch Parrott. There were in fact two Thomas Parrotts in the area, but their middle name was not Enoch, and based on the paper records and YDNA, one belongs to the Richard Parrott line, and the other to the Nathaniel Parrott line, so neither can be related to George's descendants.

Nevertheless, Thomas's (of the Richard line) relatives followed a similar path to Lousiana as did George's descendants. Thomas' sister-in-law was Martha Quirk, whose niece Lavinia married Robert Parrott, grandson of George, and ended up in Sabine parish near Martha's husband, Latney Parrott. These two Parrott lines are so entangled that without YDNA, they never would have been sorted out.

George and Susannah had a son, Robert George (1790 - 1848). According to Robert Parrott, he "lived in Edgefield Co SC, Columbia County GA, moved to Conecuh Co/Wilcox Co AL with the relatives of Sarah Travis, and settled at a spot named Travis Ford. Sarah Travis was probably the aunt of William Barrett Travis, Alamo commander," He was the son of her putative brother, Mark, who moved to Conecuh county in 1818 from Edgefield county. However, it is more likely that Sarah Travis married Mark's brother-in-law, William Stallworth. The fact that Sarah Travis, wife of Robert George, had a brother James in Pulaski Co., Georgia, argues against this Sarah being the aunt of William Barrett Travis, as the Edgefield district Travis family is not known to have had a son James. Also, James is not listed in Barrett Travis' (father of Mark) will, but William Stallworth is.

Dates for Sarah Travis and the family's move to Alabama were predicated on Sarah being Mark Travis' sister. Once it became clear that Sarah and Mark were not brother and sister, those dates do not hold up any more. The only thing that can be said with any degree of certainty is that the family was in Georgia when William was born in 1814 (1850) census, or 1811 (1860 census). The fourth child, Elizabeth, was born in 1820 or 1822 in Alabama.

"Old Robert moved to Wilcox [ ] County Al ca 1820, and then to Claiborne Parish and finally Sabine Parish In 1839." He and "his wife moved their family to Claiborne Parish LA in about 1849." "After several years in Claiborne Parish Robert George moved again and established a farm on Bayou Toro in Sabine Parish. He died there a few days after his will was probated on July 31, 1848."

"Robert Parrott ("old Robert Parrott") who married twice -- (1) Sarah Travis, with whom he had at least 5 children." "Children of this marriage were William (~1811-1863) born in Georgia, Mary (1814), Lucy (1828), Elizabeth (1822), James (1824). Sally died in childbirth with James, leaving Robert George with five children including the infant." The next confirmed date is 1833, when the family is in Wilcox county. Assuming Sarah was about 18 at William's birth in 1814, she would have been born ca 1896.

"Within 4 months Robert George married an 18-year-old second wife (Eliza Polk) who was a neighbor. The lived in Wilcox County AL near the original town of Snow Hill (Furman)." "With Eliza Polk, he had at least 5 children, Eunice Hendricks, Susan Ford, Robert (1828-1917), John (1831) and Eliza. There was a slave son named George, who died a few years after Old Robert." Robert married Lavina Quirk, whose aunt Martha Quirk married Latney Parrott, further contributing to the confusion between the two unrelated Parrott families in the area. Robert and Lavinia went on to have a large family.

"Old Robert and William became seriously estranged when Robert married Eliza Polk, who was only slightly older than William. Father and son were never on good terms again," "to the point that father and son soon were not on speaking terms." There is no documentation showing that "Robert George ever legally acknowledged William as his son." "In his will he [Robert George] mentioned his children, Elizabeth Oliver, James Parrott, Eunice Hendricks, Robert Parrott, John Parrott, Eliza Parrott, but not the children from his first marriage, Mary Seale, Lucy Wood, Susan Ford, and William Parrott.

William moved to nearby Dallas county to find work and became close to the family of a prosperous planter, Martin Batte Lee and his wife Lavinia Allbritton Lee. William married one of the many Lee daughters, Nancy Harriet Lee. William moved completely into the Lee circle and had no further connection with Robert George that I know of. He became close to Mary Seale and Elizabeth Oliver in later years."

William and Nancy Parrott moved from Union Parish to Sabine Parish in 1855 and purchased a farm on Bayou Toro near the Robert George Parrott Farm where widowed Eliza Polk Parrott still lived with some of her children. Whether William and his step mother were reconciled is not known, but William and Nancy were buried on Robert George's original farm property in 1863 during an epidemic" possibly of yellow fever.

Additional information from Links that Bind (1967) p 241: "William Parrott, b. ca 1811 in Georgia, based on 1850-1860 U. S. Census. Married Nancy Lee, daughter of Martin Batte Lee and Levincy Allbritton. States Mrs. Andrus [aka Edytha Parrott, the ggrand daughter], the line of William has not been completed but he is thought to have been the son of George Parrott of Georgia. An interesting story by Mrs. Andrus 'Nancy Lee and William Parrott and children, namely Sarah 22, Robert G., David A., Mary A., 8, 6 and 5 years, were stricken with a fatal disease, a form of Cholera, commonly called Bloody Flux. They died within two days apart on 12-4-1863 (death of Nancy Lee Parrott is recorded in the Lee Parrott Bible). There may have been other children but these are the only ones we have as listed in the 1.860 Census. Nancy Lee, born Jan. 1, 1822, died while the battle of Vicksburg was being fought 80 miles away.'"

Note the reference to William's father as George. Another descendant, Peggy Sue McCormick Choate, does likewise in her family tree (Parrott Talk [1992] 10:161-163). If nothing else, it indicates the use of 'George' as a family name.

Web pages with more information on this family:

George Parrott and his descendants in Alabama & Louisiana - version

George Parrott and his descendants in Alabama & Louisiana - version- contains documentation

DNA results, family synopsis & additional information

Last Parrot Reunion, Sabine Parish

Documentation