Documents from the late life of Nancy Ann Hawes Quarles verify the time
and place of her birth. According to the 1850 census of Jackson County,
Tennessee, Ann, who was living in the household of her youngest son,
Clinton W. Burton, was born in 1785 in Virginia.
The 1860 census of Putnam County, Tennessee, shows Ann living in the
household of her daughter, Elizabeth Jane Burton Apple and her husband,
Oliver P. Apple. This census confirms that she was born in 1785 in Virginia.
Another document from a court case, Bayly vs Quarles and Willis,
sheds light on the possibility that Nancy Ann Hawes Quarles was born in
Albemarle County, Virginia. The first page of this particular document states:
"We, William P. Quarles, of the county of Albemarle . . ." and is signed by
Ann’s father, “Wm P. Quarles”. It bears the date, "this twentieth Day of
March Anno Dom, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four," the year
before the birth of Nancy Ann Hawes Quarles.
This record title was preserved by the Virginia Circuit Court Records Preservation Program;
Collection: CR-DC-L; Record ID: 674-23; Processed by Margaret Ann Crickman;
Extracted by Barry L. McGhee, 10/21/2002.
Credence is lent to the assumption that the family of William P. Quarles had
resided in Albemarle County for several years just before Nancy Ann
Quarles’ birth by the records of The Society of the Cincinnati of the
State of Virginia. Major General Edgar Erskine Hume, president
of the society, published more than one volume of information regarding the
records of the society during his tenure. The residence of
"Lt. Willm P. Quarles" during his service is given as Albemarle County.
Unfortunately the scroll which gives the record of his time of service as
an officer has been damaged.
At the time of Nancy Ann Quarles’ birth, she had two older sisters,
Tabitha (abt. 1780) and Mary (abt. 1782). Three other sisters,
Elizabeth (1790), Frances (abt. 1790), Sarah (abt. 1792), and two brothers,
William (abt 1794) and James (abt. 1798) arrived by 1801.
MARRIAGE
The years between the Revolution and the turn of the 19th century are not
entirely documented, but by 1792 the William Pennington Quarles family
had moved to Bedford County, Virginia. Nancy Ann Hawes was about
sixteen years old when, on November 3, 1801, William Burton, son of
William and Frances Burton, made bond for a license to marry her.
WILLIAM BURTON, JR.
Nancy Ann Hawes Quarles and William Burton, Jr.’s great-great-grandson,
Judge Ernest Houston Boyd and his cousin, Dr. Walter McClain, wrote
"An Early History of Putnam County Tennessee" which was serialized
in the Putnam County newspaper, "The Herald", during 1953-1954.
It is believed that Dr. McClain was the author of brief biographical
notes on each of the ten children of William Pennington and Ann Hawes Quarles
for an article which appeared March 19, 1953, page 2. The following
excerpt from that article is about Ann Hawes Quarles and William Burton.
