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There is NO match between the Garrisons of New Jersey and Jedediah's descendants. None.  Not possibly related.  Jedediah's (and my Isaiah's) subgroupis Group B  Garr*sons of Carolinas and Georgia.  The New JerseyGarrisons are Group D Gerrit Segers 1620. (Karen Simmons, Co-Administrator, Garrison DNA Project, Descendant of Zebulon)

3.   JEDEDIAH b. 1752 Carteret Co NC
(Obituary says he was born Carteret 1752, James was in Carteret records 1754, 1758 & 1762)

1771 Duplin, witnessed Ebenezer’s deed, other witness was James

1773 July 7 Duplin Co NC, Jedediah Garrison was deeded 50 acres by Phillip & Hannah Rouse, “On the west side of the North East Branch of Cape Fear River On a branch of Stocking Head swamp together with the Improvements thereon” witnessed by Ebenezer Garrison. (Duplin Co Deed Book 5, page 233, SAMPSON-DUPLIN DEEDS, Books 4-6, (ca. 1762 to ca. 1779), by Max R. Peterson, Jr.)

1774 Mar 28 Duplin Co NC, Jedediah Garrison was deeded 100 acres by John & Sarah Murrow, “On the west sode of the North East of Cape Fear River on Horse branch” Ebenezer Garrison was a witness (Duplin Co Deed Book 5, page 121, SAMPSON-DUPLIN DEEDS, Books 4-6, (ca. 1762 to ca. 1779), by Max R. Peterson, Jr.)

1776 Nov 13 Petition for a new election in Orange Co NC Gediah (Jedediah) (The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, May 1984, p 105)

1776 Feb Duplin Co NC, Jedediah Garrison deeded to Charles Ward 100 acres “On the west side fo the North East River. . . Being a part of (200) acres of land pattented by John Morrow above the mouth of Horse branch.” (The parcel he purchased 1774 Mar 28) (Duplin Co Deed Book 6, page 4, ABSTRACTS, SAMPSON-DUPLIN AND SAMPSON COUNTY DEEDS, BOOKS 7-9, (ca. 1780 to ca. 1794), Max R. Peterson Jr. )

1776 (approximate) Jedediah Garrison, Revolutionary Soldier (Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia 1827 compiled by Martha Lou Houston, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967, page 139, “Jedediah Garrison, R.S.” accepted by DAR)

1779 Jedediah(Judah) and Isaiah Orange Co NC Tax List together (Orange County NC 1779 Tax List, North Carolina Genealogy, Raleigh NC Summer 1969. Vol. 15 Issue 2, page 2355)

1790 Greenville, SC, Elenor Garrison and Jedediah Garrison

Jedediah and his descendants moved to Franklin County Georgia where they interacted with the descendants of Isaiah and Elenor
(son James)
(son Thomas)
(daughter Jane)

Old Georgia family tradition said Caleb and a sister, Eleanor, were niece and nephew to Jedediah.

Karen Simmons reports that "recent DNA test results (July 2009) on a descendant of Shadrack Garrison through his son John have shown that he is a perfect 32/32 match to my third cousin. We are haplogroup R1b1b2. My cousin and I are descendants of Zebulon Garrison. All of us are also a perfect match to descendants of Jedediah Garrison and a close match to a descendant of Ebenezer Garrason. Another descendant of Shadrack Garrison, this one through his son Caleb, has ordered a DNA test kit so we will be seeing a second set of results soon."

Jedediah Garrison, born 1752 Carteret (sometimes spelled Cortwright) Co, NC, m Jane Williams; died 1830 Franklin (now Banks) Co, GA. Like Ebenezer he was born before Thomas & Jane (Ferris) Garrason married, may have been brother or cousin.

married Jane Williams of Duplin Co. They lived in Duplin Co. before 1780. In the 1790’s he was living in Greenville District, SC; and moved to Banks Co., GA, about 1800.

Jedediah GARRISON lived in Duplin and Orange Counties, North Carolina, later moved to the Greenville District in South Carolina, then to Franklin County, Georgia. The area in Franklin County was later renamed Banks County, Georgia.

Jedediah GARRISON Witnessed a deed in Duplin County, North Carolina in 1771, and bought land there in 1773. Jedediah GARRISON appeared on a Tax List in Caswell District of Orange County, North Carolina in 1781, where He owned 100-Acres of land and Three Cows. The Duplin County, North Carolina Deed Book 5, Records a deed in which Jedediah GARRISON bought 100-Acres of land from Phillip Rouse and his wife Hannah.

In February 1776, Jedediah GARRISON sold to Charles Ward 100-Acres of land on the West side of the North East River for 6-Pounds. (English Money).

Riots disrupted the Voting in Orange County on October 15, 1776, and Jedediah GARRISON signed a petition requesting New Elections.

Jedediah GARRISON was living in the Greenville District of South Carolina during the 1790 and 1800 United States Census.

In the Spring of 1804, Jedediah Garrison and His Family Moved from South Carolina to Franklin County, Georgia, in the Area that is Now Banks County, Georgia. (Banks County was Created from Franklin County in 1858).

(The following is from the Garrason & Related Famlies Website:)

Jedediah Garrison (died 1830 present Banks Co, Georgia)

The amount of information Mr. Outlaw included for Jedediah's family suggests he had help from family members . . .
(8) Jedediah Garrison, lived in Duplin County for several years prior to 1780. During the seventeen-nineties he was living in Greenville District, South Carolina, and from thence he moved to Banks County, Ga., soon after the year 1800. His wife was Jane Williams of Duplin County and their children were as follows:
(a) Jane Garrison, born 1765(date error), married Barney Meadows and lived in Banks County;
(b) Rebecca Garrison, married Burton and lived in Hall County, Ga.;
(c) Rev. Levi Garrison, a Methodist minister, located in Anderson County, South Carolina, and reared a large family there; his wife was Miss Meadows of North Carolina; two of their sons were ministers;
(d) James Caleb Garrison, married Katie Morgan and reared a large family in Banks County;
(e) Rev. David Garrison, a Methodist minister, lived and died in Banks County, leaving a large family;
(f) Christopher Garrison, Jr. married Kessiah Meaders and reared two sons;
(g) Thomas Garrison, married and reared a family;
(h) Capais Garrison moved West.

It is quite obvious that Mr. Outlaw had been in touch with descendants of Jedediah Garrison before he wrote his article. Lacking such communication he would not have been able to give the detailed list of descendants that he did. Without a doubt his contact was the late D. H. P. Garrison of Godfrey, GA.

Serious corrections need to be made to the information
for some of the children of Jedediah Garrison.
Jane Garrison [numbered (a) by Mr. Outlaw] was born 1785 or thereabouts, not 1765. The erroneous year was found in Jane (Meaders) Quillian's memoirs which she wrote in 1882 following the death of her mother, Jane (Garrison) Meaders. [The more nearly correct 1785 is found in many sources including John Silas Garrison's The Garrison Family. p. 29.]

This date error, 1765 that should be 1785, has caused idiotic results in the information some descendants of Jedediah have put together. Unfortunately they have been so anxious to share their stupendous mistakes that they entered this "pseudo-data" into the International Genealogical Index of the LDS Church and this collection of "imaginary facts" is now available on the Internet. Someone, carelessly accepting 1765 as Jane's date of birth, decided that her father, Jedediah, must have been born about 1730. That meant that his father, the imaginary Christopher Garrison, must have been born about 1700, an estimate made in spite of the fact that the real Christopher Garrison had been born 1730/1 on Staten Island. And, of course, that meant that Christopher's parents, Isaac Garrison and Maria Christopher, had been born in the 1670s or so, in spite of Isaac having been listed as a boy in the 1706 census of Staten Island, and in spite of Maria having been christened as an infant in 1710. Another unfortunate situation is that some descendant of Jedediah, likely D. H. P. Garrison, entered this information into a family Bible and then submitted it to the Georgia DAR for publication in a collection of Bible records. Doesn't it mean anything to anyone that the only reliable Bible records are those entered after the Bible was printed?

James Caleb Garrison's middle name is questionable. [numbered (d)] No one has found any proof that the son James had Caleb as his middle name. It is a family tradition but there are no records in his home county for James Caleb, James C., J. Caleb or J. C. Garrison. See Capais at the end of this list. [Early court house records for Franklin County, GA have been published and the index does not list him by any name other than simply James.]

Christopher Garrison [numbered (f)] was never called Jr. in any known records and he did not rear his sons, having died 1811 when they were very small. It should be noted that some descendants of Jedediah have insisted that the will of Jedediah's son Christopher was really that of the old Christopher they believe was Jedediah's father. If that were the case, and this writer thinks the idea preposterous, old Christopher must have married shortly before his death and fathered several sons that he left orphaned.

Will of Christopher Garrason. The DAR source spells the name Garrison and gives young Christopher's wife as Benor. [Daughters of the American Revolution, Georgia Chapters. Historical Collections. Vidalia (GA), Georgia Genealogical Reprints, no date (Atlanta: Charles P. Byrd, State Printer, 1926). v. 1, pp. 254-255.]

John Silas Garrison's The Garrison Family, p. 11 of the 2nd appendix, quoted Christopher's recorded will and gave the spelling in all instances as Garrason and the wife's name as Kesiah, which was correct, with a note that her name was written above the regular line.

Capais Garrison [numbered (h)], called Capel in some lists, was actually Caleb Garrison, born 1789. He was known as Caleb Garrison, Jr. to distinguish him from the Caleb Garrison, Sr. who married Sarah Fleming. He moved west and died in Conway County, Arkansas. Researchers in his branch of the family, including Mesdames Shipman and Maples, insist that Caleb Garrison was the Capais listed as Jedediah's youngest son. As proof, they quote a sketch in a Conway County, Arkansas history that reported their Caleb's father as Jadiah Garrison, which is an ignorant spelling of the name Jedediah. [Quillian Garrison, editor. John Garrison Ross and Quillian Garrison, compilers. Descendants of Caleb Garrison, Sr. and his wife Sarah Fleming. Angleton (TX): Times Printers & Stationers, Inc., 1967. p. 17. Historical Reminences and Biographical Memoirs of Conway County, Arkansas. Arkansas Historical Publishing Co., 1890. Photocopy made at the Little Rock library was shared with the writer.]

This writer appreciates the stretching one's imagination must suffer to accept these corrections concerning the name Caleb. To make it easy to write his feelings on the matter, he is dropping the formal writing style for this section.

In spite of the uncountable number of problems that have been found in the records of the descendants of Jedediah Garrison, I lean toward the possibility that the son James was actually named James Caleb. I make that statement even though two given names were uncommon when he was born and, if that were his name, he was the only one of the children of Jedediah for whom a tradition of two given names has survived. The fact that no record of him using his middle name or initial has been found would be understandable if we knew that he was the only James in his county. There would have been no need for him to have been called anything other than James Garrison. The late John Silas Garrison of Athens, GA, a great grandson of James, listed his ancestor as James Caleb. While John may have been just following tradition, I find his comments about the various claims of his cousins to have been rather well thought out.

Now we must examine the possibility of two brothers, both named Caleb.

If James were really named James Caleb, then I do not believe the youngest son of Jedediah was also named Caleb. However, he may have called himself Caleb in adult life.

For the longest time, folks were rather casual about personal names. With a much smaller population it did not matter if the man who operated the flour mill called himself by the English John or the French Jean and even the Spanish Juan. He was still the man who ran the mill. If Ann Marie Poindexter decided as a teen-ager she wanted to be known as Maryann, she would be married and buried as Maryann, but everyone still knew she was old man Poindexter's daughter Ann Marie. Aloysius James Henderson might have been called James or Jim by everyone. When he enlisted in the militia as James A. Henderson, everyone knew who he was, and it caused no problem 40 years later when he applied for a Confederate pension.

If this son of Jedediah were named Capais or Capel, it would be understandable if he refused to accept either name once he reached maturity. They are not the most desirable of names. He may have found a role model in either James Caleb or the elder Caleb Garrison, Sr. He may have called himself Caleb to try to make himself more like his hero, to emulate him, to honor him.

Jedediah Garrason was in Duplin County, witnessing a deed in 1771 and buying land in 1773. The 1771 deed was the one whereby Ebenezer Garrason purchased land from Andrew and Arabella McIntire. ["Duplin County, North Carolina, Deed Book 4", p. 458.] The 1773 deed shows that Jedediah Garrason purchased land from Phillip Rouse and wife Hannah. This appears to have been part of a grant to Rouse that was directly south of a 1784 grant made to Adonijah Garrason. Because Ephraim and Adonijah Garrason were witnesses to the will of Phillip Rouse, some of Jedediah's descendants have suggested that Rouse's wife Hannah had been a Garrason before her marriage, but there is no proof of that. Yet, lacking that proof, some researchers in the north Georgia family still list Hannah (Garrison) Rouse as a daughter of Christopher and Phebe (Vanderbilt) Garrison. Rouse's will was proved 18 Oct 1784. ["Duplin County, North Carolina, Deed Book 5", p. 233 ; McEachern, Abstracts 1784-1787. p. 1].

Jedediah disappeared from Duplin County in 1776 after selling land. On - Feb 1776 Jedidiah Garrison sold to Charles Ward, for £6 proclamation money, 100 acres on west side of North East River, part of 200 acres patented by John Morrow above the mouth of Horse Branch. [Record is now called "Sampson-Duplin Deed Book 7", p. 4. Max R. Peterson, Jr. Abstracts - Sampson-Duplin and Sampson County Deeds, Books 7-9, c1780-c1794. Dunn (NC): Pope Printing Co, 1985. p. 1.]

That same year, 1776, one Gediah Garrison signed a petition in Orange County, North Carolina. A petition requesting new elections after riots disrupted the voting on 15 Oct 1776 was signed in Orange County in 1776 by Gediah Garrison. Another copy, which suggests a different part of the county, was signed by Jacob, Garret, George and John Garrison. [North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal. v. 10, no. 2, pp. 98-106 (May, 1984). Those last four named have been found to have been descendants of the Garretson family originally of Delaware and later of Pennsylvania. Sources omitted to save space. Trust me - CCG]

The name of Jedediah Garrison appeared on the 1781 Tax List of Caswell District, Orange County, North Carolina, with three cows and 100 acres. [North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal. v. 11, no. 4, p. 237 (Nov, 1985).] According to his descendants, he lived in that portion of Orange County that is now Alamance County. Several of his older children were born there

He was in Greenville District, SC for the 1790 and 1800 censuses, neither of which counts a male over 16-years-old who can be identified as Christopher Garrison, his supposedly father who supposedly was living with him.

Jedediah moved to Franklin [present Banks] County, Georgia in or around 1804. A land record in Greenville identifies Jedediah of Greenville as the one who moved on to Georgia. A deed dated 6 Feb 1806 records the sale of land by Jedediah Garrison of the state of Georgia to John Dunbar of Greenville County, South Carolina. ["Greenville County Deed Book G", pp. 363-364.]

When he died he was buried in the cemetery at Mt. Pleasant Church in present Banks County, Georgia. Some descendants insist he died in 1827 or 1828. However, there is an abstract of obituaries which tells that he died in 1830. [Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion's Herald. Published for the Methodist Episcopal Church from Sep 1827 through Aug 1831 by J. Emory and B. Waugh. Edited by N. Bangs and B. Badger in New York City.] The printed abstract [from Gleanings from the "Christian Advocate and Herald and Zion's Herald". Dorothy Haller and Marulyn Robinson, compilers. Bowie (MD): Heritage Books, 1989.] reads:

Jedediah Garrason, age 78, [died] Mar 3, 1830, Franklin Co, GA, b[orn] 1752 in Co. of Cortwright, NC of English parents, sometime after 1786 he lived in SC and later moved to GA.

Garrason is the spelling from the printed abstract. Only the items in [square brackets] were added by this writer. Cortwright was a common mispronunciation of Carteret that was in use in the 1700s and 1800s. Samuel Garrison of Pensacola provided this writer with copies of deeds recorded in the Carteret County court house in which the official record used the spelling Cortwright.

It should be obvious to the viewer that the Webmaster refuses to entertain any claim that Jedediah was the son of Christopher Garrison of Staten Island, NY.

How could he have been? Jedediah of Franklin Co, GA was born in 1752 in North Carolina while Christopher and wife Phebe were still living on Staten Island as late as 1766 when their last known child, a daughter Eleanor, was born and christened on Staten Island. Click here to read sources of that 1766 date.

Notes from Bev Garrison based on her research

Jedediah Garrison was born and raised in Dupin County, NC. His wife Jane Williams was
also from North Carolina. In 1790, Jedediah was in the Pendleton District of S. Carolina
and in 1800 was listed as being in the Greenville District of South Carolina.
In the spring of 1804, Jedediah and his family moved from South Carolina to
Franklin County, Georgia. (Christopher, being quite old, came with them to Georgia.- error)
Jedediah Garrison was a Revolutionary War soldier, and in 1827 drew Lee County Land
in the land Lottery. It was granted Dec. 21, 1833.

Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church near Homer, Georgia in Banks County was organized by
Jedediah Garrison, two of his sons and some cousins. David and Levi Garrison, sons of
Jedediah, were Methodist ministers. Levi returned to South Carolina and preached on a
circuit for 10 years. Levi also built and operated the first Cotton Mill in South Carolina.
Jedediah, his (father) son Christopher, and other members of his family are buried at
Mt Pleasant Methodist Church near Homer, Georgia. In 1989 a marker was placed at
Jedediah's grave by the D.A.R and the Veteran's Administration, stating that he was a
Revolutionary War Soldier.

Jedediah is listed in 1790 census of South Carolina and in the County Deed books of
North Carolina, South Carolina and in Franklin County, Georgia. It shows the amount of
land he owned and where it was located. He also fought in the War of 1812.


Jedediah Garrison Bible

Contributed by Jacqueline King

Birth	Abt 1752	Carteret, North Carolina, British America
Marriage	Abt 1776	Duplin, North Carolina, British America - Jane Williams
Census (family)	1790	Greenville District, South Carolina - Jane Williams
Death	3 Mar 1830	Franklin, Georgia, United States
Burial		Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church, Banks, Georgia, United States

Spouse	Jane Williams (1755 - )
Child	Rev David Garrison (1777 - 1842)
Child	Rev. Levi Garrison (1779 - 1850)
Child	Thomas W Garrison (1780 - 1864)
Child	Jane Garrison (1785 - 1879)
Child	Christopher Garrison (1788 - 1811)
Child	Capel "Caleb" Garrison (1789 - )
Child	James (Caleb) "Jimmy" Garrison (1788 - 1840)
Child	Rebecca Garrison ( - )

Father	James Garrison (1725 - 1771)
Mother	Jane ( - )
Sibling	Isaiah Garrison (1745 - 1783)
Sibling	Ebenezer Garrison (1750 - 1801)
Sibling	Adonijah Garrason (1755 - 1823)
Sibling	Ephraim Garrison (1757 - 1792)
Sibling	Thomas Garrison (1764 - 1841)
Sibling	Elizabeth Garrison (1771 - 1822)
Sibling	Darius Garrison (1772 - 1838)

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