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Earl F Webb's "The Webb Genealogy"

CeeCee: Earl F Webb in his manuscript in a section called:

UNPROVEN FACTS I HAVE RUN ACROSS BUT CANNOT DOCUMENT BY
RESEARCH; SOMETIMES KNOWN AS "FAMILY TRADITION HAS IT."

BY EARL F WEBB

I have run across information that says my GGGM Catharine MATTOX, wife of GGGF Theodoric WEBB, was the daughter of a Captain John MATTOCKS who was killed at the battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Oct 7 1780. He was buried there along with his friends Major William CHRONICLE, William ROBB, and John BOYD. MATTOCKS was originally from Virginia but served from Lincoln County, North Carolina, as did Major Chronicle. There were also men named WEBB in the same battle, but I do not know if they were my WEBB line or not. An article gathered by genealogist, Prentiss PRICE of Rogersville, Tennessee, says his papers are now in The Stamps Memorial Library in Rogersville. Written there it says: A John WEBB, one of several brothers in Hawkins County, Tennessee, wrote that his mother's father was Captain John MATTOCKS. His letter claimed that the Captain survived and drew a pension for the rest of his life. I have seen a copy of this letter (which a Mr T A (Thomas) ROGERS on Mooresburg, Tennessee sent to Historian Lyman C DRAPER) on Mar 5 1981, in the collection of DRAPER's papers in the Dayton-Montgomery County, OH, library.[END QUOTE]

Some years ago I did some checking and came up with the following (found in my):
http://pages.xtn.net/~billiam/maddox3b.html
When Sources Fail!

WHEN SOURCES FAIL!

QUESTION: (Especially Theodoric WEBB researchers) How do you counter when one published source misquotes an original document and this false information gets circulated to the extent that it looks like a person born in 1788 was the daughter of a man who died in 1780?

Thomas A Rogers, Morresburg, TN letter 5 Mar 1881 (Draper Collection 5DD39): "I am acquainted with some Webbs (all brothers) of this County. I saw one of them (Mr John Webb) last week. He says his mother's father (Mr Mattox) was in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension until he died. Did not know which battles he was in."

Page 568 of "Calendar of the Tennessee and King's Mountain paper of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts" misquotes above statement from Thomas A Rogers as: "Webb brothers of this county descendants of Captain Mattocks." [End quote]

One or more WEBB researchers apparently picked up this misquoted statement from the printed book, and apparently didn't have access to whatever form the original statement was in.

One such researcher wrote: "I have evidence that proves that Catharine Mattox Webb was the daughter of Captain John Mattocks (Mattox) who had fought in the battle of Kings Mountain, N.C., in the Revolutionary War. This information was claimed in a letter from their son, John Webb of Hawkins County, Tennessee, written to a Mr T. A. Rogers of Mooresburg, Tennessee, and sent by Mr Rogers, to Mr Lyman C Draper March 5th 1881."

Actual letter makes no reference to "Captain" Mattocks or the Battle of King's Mountain.

NOTE: This John Webb does not ID his mother's father by name. Apparently his grandfather did not die at the battle of King's Mountain, SC (not NC), as John says he drew a pension "until he died."

There were THREE Maddox brothers at the battle of Kings Mountain, Edward Maddox, a Tory, and two Americans, Charles Maddox and Capt John Maddox. One statement says that after the battle, Edward, the Tory, was about to be hung, but was saved by the intercession of his brother Charles. Capt John Maddox died in the battle.

My WEBB ancestors go back to a Theodoric WEBB who died in 1851 in Hawkins Co TN. I'm having trouble zeroing in on him before he came to Hawkins Co TN because there were several WEBB men named Theodoric. [End quote]

Hawkins County Tennessee, Cemeteries, Volume 1, page 194: Webb, Catherine
Mattox b 1788 d 19 Feb 1870.