From: outahere@juno.com [outahere@juno.com]
Sent: Mon, September 23, 2002
Subject: Longleys on your website
Dave...There is absolutely no evidence that William Longley's parents were as shown. The only Longley in Loudoun Co., VA where he went as a child from NJ and was living with his father when he enlisted in the Revolutionary War, was Joseph Longley (wife's name unknown). Joseph Longley first appeared in Loudoun Co., VA in 1764 and remained there through the 1810 census. Until his sons William and Joseph got old enough to appear on tax lists, he was the only Longley in Loudoun Co., as I discovered in 1980 on my first long research vacation. Joseph was Joseph Longley Jr. in Hunterdon Co. NJ records in 1761 where he and Joseph Sr. were co-defendants in a lawsuit. Joseph Longley Sr. md. Mary Campbell, the dau. of John Campbell a Scottish Covenenter banished to East Jersey and arrived in Monmouth Co., NJ Dec 1685. I belong to Daughters of American Colonists on William, his father, both his parents, and his grandfather John Campbell, whose heirs signed an Indenture in 1732 selling Monmouth Co., NJ property in the estate of John Campbell, late of Philadelphia -- it was signed in Hunterdon Co., NJ by Joseph & wife Mary Longley.
Not listed in William Longley's Revolutionary Pension record was his son Joseph, who predeceased him and was my ancestor. An 1812 file on him has an affidavit signed by his brother Joel that they served together and he saw his brother die (in one record says 1829, another 1830), and that my gr-gr-grandmother Martha Jane Longley was his only surviving heir and should receive a land warrant for her father's service. She did.
Thanks, I may have questions but wanted to get this off to you. Unfortunately, the James Longley & Sarah Nicholson as parents of William misinformation was published conjecture about 1970, but that couple md. in Norfolk Co., VA, a family which has no apparent connection to ours whatsoever.
Doris Johnston