John Oliver Minter

1718 - 1797  (79 years)

• Name	John Oliver Minter
  Birth	1718	Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  _UID	B78DEF9B835A4EB29AAF12D64407771BB955
  Death	14 Jun 1797	North Carolina, USA
  Notes	Notes by Bob White: John mentions his children, Agness, Morgan & Judith Minter & wife Elizabeth Minter in a court record in Cumberland Co., Va. Oct 1769. John's will is dated 14 Jun 1797. John bought land in Cumberland Co., Virginia in Nov 1763 & later moved to Bedford Co., Va. then migrated to Chatham Co. NC, where he purchased 500 acres of land in 1772 from his nephew Jeremiah Minter, who had purchased it from William & Elizabeth (Minter) Riddle. The following is copied from 'Minter Notes' by Don Chamberlayne (last updated 20 October 2011). Cross references to sources have been omitted but can be found in the original version. "John Oliver Minter By all known accounts, John Oliver Minter, the second son of Anthony and Elizabeth, was born in 1718. Where he was born is unknown but very likely he grew up in Caroline County. About the late 1740s, he married Elizabeth Michaux Morgan of Cumberland County. Her ancestry traced to the early Jamestown era on her father's side and to Amsterdam and France, via the Huguenot exodus from France of the late 17th century, on her mother's side. An account of this lineage by this author was published in December, 2006 in a Minter family newsletter described below. According to Dellinger, John bought land in Cumberland County in 1763, and in a court document there in 1769, his wife Elizabeth and three children were mentioned. John acquired a 54-acre tract in Bedford County, the deed dated August 27, 1770 (copy courtesy of Bob White). In 1772 he moved to Chatham County, NC where he purchased 500 acres from his nephew, Jeremiah Minter, son of Anthony, Jr. One of the sons of John and Elizabeth was Joseph, born about 1750 in Cumberland. Joseph moved as a young man with his family about 1772 to Chatham County, NC, where he married Frances "Fannie" Hill. A son of Joseph and Fannie was John Morgan Minter, born in 1792, who married Dorothy Brooks Mathis. They settled in Georgia, first in Hancock County and later in Marion County where he was a representative to both houses of the Georgia legislature. In 1855, some three years after his wife's passing, John and some of his grown children moved to Hopkins County, Texas. He died the following year, but two of his sons remained in what became known as the "Pine Forest" area (about 20 miles east of Dallas), and from them has descended an extensive and highly "connected" family who call themselves the "Minters of Pine Forest." This family network is connected through "The Minters of Pine Forest Family Association" and its extraordinary newsletter, "News of the Minters of Pine Forest," and through a family website which includes photographs, family news and history, anecdotes, remembrances, and the like, as well as an outline of a book in progress* on the history of the family. The prime mover behind all this is a descendant of one of two brothers, Thomas J. Minter, of Ohio. A good place to start to learn more about this line is www.pineforestminters.homestead.com " * Note by John Minter, January 2015: the book referred to above 'The Minters of Pine Forest' by Thomas J Minter was published in 2012.
  Person ID	I110	America
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2015

  
  

  Father	Anthony Minter,   b. Abt 1685   d. 1751, Caroline County, Virginia, USA (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth
  Family ID	F21	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Michaux MORGAN
  Children	1. Judith Minter,   b. 1744   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Anthony Morgan Minter,   b. 1747, Virginia, USA d. Abt 1805, Washington County, Georgia, USA (Age 58 years)   3. Phillip Minter,   b. 1748   d. Abt 1796, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA (Age 48 years)   4. Elizabeth Minter,   b. 1749   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Joseph Minter,   b. 1750, Virginia, USA d. Feb 1823, Haywood, Chatham County, North Carolina, USA (Age 73 years)   6. Agness Minter,   b. Aft 1753   d. Yes, date unknown   7. John Oliver Minter, Jr.,   b. 1755   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Jane Minter,   b. 27 Jul 1761   d. 29 Jul 1817 (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F99	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2012

  
  

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