The Abraham Teague family is a collateral line of my husband’s through his ancestor, Thomas Brasher (c1701-1779), and second wife, Hannah (MNU) (c1725-?).
Thomas Brasher was from Maryland and migrated to the Orange County, North Carolina area in the 1750s.
Hannah Brasher who married Abraham Teague, c1769, is believed to be the first child born to Thomas and second wife, Hannah, about 1748, a few years before they left Maryland.
Abraham Teague was born c1745, purportedly in North Carolina, the son of Moses Teague and possibly Rachel (MNU), if she was Moses’s only wife. However, Virginia land records in the 1730s and 1740s indicate Moses Teague likely lived in Orange County, Virginia at the time Abraham was supposedly born.
Abraham Teague died in early October 1795 in Rowan County, North Carolina, according to his estate administration papers at the young age of about 50 years.
There are trees online for Abraham Teague and Hannah Brasher, most of which include multiple daughters.
However, Abraham’s estate administration and a land deed filed by heirs of Abraham’s son, Aquilla, identify no daughters born to Abraham and Hannah.
Further, there are complicated court entries regarding a noncupative will purportedly made by John Teague, Abraham’s son, in 1813. His heirs are named as widow Nancy and children – Parthena, Jacob, James, Hannah and Susanna. Yet, inexplicably, a land deed shows his heirs selling off his land and the heirs are his brothers plus “Isaac Welborn and wife Sary,” which would seem to indicate that Sary, or Sarah, was also a child of Abraham and Hannah Teague.
That begs the question about whether Sarah perhaps received her portion of her father’s estate when she married. That is understandable, but then why wasn’t Sarah Welborn (who married c1790) listed as an heir of her brother Aquilla, when his land was sold by his heirs – his brothers.
To complicate matters further, the Teague family was large and they used the same given names over and over. Lacking birth and marriage records in early North Carolina, they are difficult to identify and distinguish.
Since the Teagues are a very distant collateral line of my husband’s, no more time will be spent researching them. However, court records and land deeds allow the following family to be pieced together, pending further discoveries in primary documents.
Abraham Teague, born c1745, probably Orange County, Virginia, married Hannah Brasher, daughter of Thomas Brasher and his second wife, Hannah (MNU), about 1767. Hannah was born c1748, likely in Maryland. Her death date is unknown, but it is believed she was the mother of all of Abraham’s children.
It is also believed that Abraham’s children were usually listed in birth order, or close to it. This accounts for comments that Moses, found in online trees with a birth year around 1768, is wrongly placed in this family.
Additionally, Moses was a minor when his father died in 1795, meaning his birth couldn’t have been any earlier than 1775 and probably was much later.
Birth years for most of the children are estimates, based on those of legal age and those still minors in 1795.
Hannah Teague was enumerated as head of household in 1800, Rowan County, North Carolina, but isn’t found after that date. Her children don’t have an elderly female living with them so she likely died between 1800-1810.
Children:
- Joab, so named in the estate administration, is also called Jacob in the land deeds, born c1768; died after 1815; probably is the man who married Margaret (MNU) and both were named when they were dismissed from their church in 1808.
- Sarah, born c1769; died after 1850, probably St. Francois County, Missouri; married Isaac Welborn, c1790
- Hezekiah, so named in the estate administration, is also called Ezekiel in the land deeds, born 30 April 1770; died 15 June 1832, Davidson County, North Carolina; married Mary [possibly Stanley]. She was born 30 January 1773; died 6 April 1832, Davidson County, North Carolina. Their original gravestones can be seen on Find-A-Grave.
- John, born c1772; died 29 March 1813, Rowan County, North Carolina; married Nancy [possibly Jones]. She survived John and they reportedly had five children. His original gravestone can be seen on Find-A-Grave.
- Isaac, born c1774; died before 6 April 1857, Davidson County, North Carolina; married Susannah Shields, 28 May 1801, Rowan County, North Carolina. Isaac left a will in Davidson County, North Carolina.
- William, born c1776; died after 1815; married Elizabeth (MNU)
- Abraham, born c1778; died after 1850, possibly Cannon County, Tennessee; married Mary [possibly DeLapp]
- Aquilla, born c1780; died before 29 July 1815, Rowan County, North Carolina; apparently unmarried or else his wife predeceased him, leaving no surviving children as his siblings inherited his estate.
- Moses, born c1782; died after 29 July 1815. There are at least two other Moses Teagues in the same area at the same time. One is too old to be this Moses, but not enough is known to separate out the younger Moses Teagues.
As seen by the scarcity of primary documentation, much more needs to be done on this family, but it is a grounded beginning for those wishing to do further research on the children of Abraham and Hannah (Brasher) Teague.
