Ayers/Ayres Sightings
Florida: 1850 and before
Ayers/Ayres Sightings
Florida: 1850 and before
Welcome to the "Ayers/Ayres Sightings" Web Site. Over the years, while researching my wife's genealogy, I have been collecting information about persons named Ayers/Ayres who lived in Florida in 1850 or before. I am hoping that sooner or later these isolated pieces of data with fall into place and I will be able to identify my wife's great grandfather. I am publishing this web site so that others may use the data that I've discovered and perhaps be able to contribute additional Ayers/Ayres sightings.
If you are interested, here is the Maxfield
Ayers story that is my jumping off point.
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Individuals
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Birth; Estimated from census. |
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Living at St. Amelia Island; self and 1 male slave. |
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Birth; South Carolina |
Roll 59, p119 |
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Married. Estimate from children's ages. |
Roll 15, p30 |
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Living in St. Augustine, St Johns County. 2 males, 4 females, no slaves |
Roll 15, p30 |
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Bought land in Mosquito County under Armed Occupation Act |
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Moved to Mellonville, Orange County |
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Living with daughter and son-in-law's family in Orange County |
Roll 59, p875 |
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Died. |
Roll 109, p191 |
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Born. |
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Arrived in Florida |
Douds |
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Living in Calhoun County with family |
County Roll58, p031 |
| Abt. 1858 | Died | John Ayers Tombstone Inscrition |
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Born. |
Vol. 27, p27 |
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Enlisted at Boston for 5 years |
Vol. 27, p27 |
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Arrived in Florida at St Augustine, St Johns County |
Vol. 27, p27 |
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Corporal serving in US Army. St Augustine, St Johns County |
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Sergeant serving in US Army. St. Augustine, St Johns County |
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Married Martha Whitaker. St Johns County |
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Discharged from US Army. St Augustine, St Johns County |
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Nominated to be Indian Agent |
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Signed petition. East Florida |
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Sergeant serving in US Army. Wounded in battle with Seminoles at Fort Drane, Alachua County |
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Born. Estimated from census record |
County Roll 58, p035 |
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Living with family in Calhoun County |
County Roll 58, p035 |
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Born. Bakersfield, Vermont |
Vol. 40, p4 |
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Enlisted in US Army at Fort Sullivan for three years |
Vol. 40, p4 |
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Reenlisted in US Army at Fort King, Florida |
Vol. 40, p4 |
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Born. Estimated from voting records | Voting Registers. St Johns County |
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Signed petition. East Florida | Territorial Papers, XXIV, p621 |
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Signed petition. East Florida | Territorial Papers, XXIV, p760 |
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Voted. St Johns County | Voting Registers. St Johns County |
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Voted. St Johns County | Voting Registers. St Johns County |
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Voted. Alachua County | Voting Registers. Alachua County |
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First sergeant serving in 1st Batt. (Warren's) Florida Mounted Militia Volunteers | Compiled Service Records, Roll 16 |
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Signed petition. Alachua County | Territorial Papers, XXV, p579 |
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Private serving in 1st Batt. (Warren's)
Florida Mounted Militia Volunteers |
Compiled Service Records, Roll 16 |
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Signed petitions. Fort Harlee, Alachua County | Territorial Papers, XXV, p626 Territorial Papers, XXVI, p141 |
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Voted. Alachua County | Voting Registers. Alachua County |
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Voted. Tampa Precinct, Hillsborough County | Voting Registers. Hillsborough County |
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Appeared on Tax Rolls. Hillsborough County | Tax Rolls, Hillsborough County |
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Born in Florida |
Roll 59, p875 |
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Possibly living in St Augustine, St Johns County |
Roll 15, p30 |
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Married Henry Crane. Date estimated from age of children. |
Roll 59, p875 |
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Living in Orange County with husband and children. Charlotte is living with them |
Roll 59, p875 |
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Born. Boston, Massachusetts |
Vol. 41, p4 |
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Enlisted in US Army at St Augustine for three years |
Vol. 41, p4 |
| 1839 | Transferred from Ft. Brooke to Ft. Heileman |
Family History Center |
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Reenlisted in US army as a sergeant |
Vol. 41, p4 |
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Born. Estimated from voting records. |
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Voted. Jackson County |
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Living with family in Calhoun County |
Roll 58, p037 |
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Born. Estimated from voting records. |
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Voted. Jackson County |
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Living in Jackson County |
Roll 15, p190 |
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Voted. Jackson County |
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| 1845 | Voted in Campbellton District, Jackson County |
Jackson County, Florida |
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Living with family in Calhoun County |
Roll 58, p031 |
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Born. Estimated from service record |
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Served in Bobo's Co. (Wilson's) 5th Batt. Georgia Mounted Volunteers at Fort Gilliland, Alachua County |
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Born. Estimated from service record |
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Joined for duty. Capt. Bradley's Det., 13 Reg.., 1st Brig. Florida Mounted Militia |
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Served in Capt. Bradley's Det., 13 Reg.., 1st Brig. Florida Mounted Militia |
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Born. Estimated from census record. |
Roll 58, p314 |
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Living with family in Jackson County. |
Roll 58, p314 |
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Born |
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Married Chrystopher Zebendon in Hillsborough County |
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Living in Ichepuckesassa Settlement, Hillsborough County with family, Maxfield, Martha II, and Christopher Zebendon, Maxfield's stepfather |
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Dead. Estimated from Marriage Records |
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Born. Estimated from census record |
County, Roll 59, p172 |
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Serving in U.S. Army. Company H, U.S. Artillery |
County, Roll 59, p172 |
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Born |
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Living in Ichepuckesassa Settlement, Hillsborough County with family, Maxfield, Martha I, and Christopher Zebendon, Maxfield's stepfather |
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Born |
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Living in Ichepuckesassa Settlement, Hillsborough County with his family, Martha I, Martha II, and Christopher Zebendon, his stepfather |
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Living in Hillsborough County with the Wilbert Combe family |
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Married Florida Dunaway in Polk County |
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Living with his wife at the farm of his brother-in-law Jefferson Crews, Polk County |
Roll 131, p |
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Living in Polk County with his wife and two children |
Roll 10, p16 |
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Living in Polk County with his family, his wife and five children |
Roll 175, p12 |
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Living in Polk County with his wife and two children |
Roll 167, ED0143 0245 |
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Died in Polk County | Death Record, Florida, File #4453 |
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Arrived in St Johns County |
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Departed from Alachua County |
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Collector of Customs, Key West, St Johns County |
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Collector of Customs, Key West, Monroe County |
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Postmaster, Palatka, St Johns County |
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Postmaster, Palatka, St Johns County |
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Signed petition in Key West, Monroe County |
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Mentioned in doctor's ledger. St Augustine, St Johns County |
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Married Sarah Groves in St Augustine, St Johns County |
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As most of you know, spelling in old records can
be something of an art form. I have encountered Ayers, Ayres, Ayrs, Ayr
Aires, Airs, Air, Ayre, Ayars, Aris, and an occasional Eyre, often with
different
spellings
for the same person. I've decided to finesse the problem on this site
by
using the generic "Ayers/Ayres".
In addition to these Ayers/Ayres variants, some
researchers contend that the English surname Hair is an Ayers variant.
I have begun research on Hair (and its variants Haar, Haire, Hare,
Harr, Haer, Hahr, Hayer, Hayre, Heier, Herr, Heyer, and Hier) in
Florida before 1850 but I have not reached any conclusion concerning
adding Hair to this web site.
Dates should be viewed as best estimates based on
the record.
I believe that all of these sightings represent
unique people. There is always the problem, of course, that there may
be
multiple individuals with the same name.
I have identified Dr. Samuel R. and Samuel R. as
unique individuals. They may be the same person.
There are only two identified familial relationships
among the names in the Sightings table; Sophia (Ayres) Crane is
Charlotte's
daughter and Martha I is the mother of Martha II and Maxfield.
Additional
family information, where available from census records, can be found
by
clicking on the "family" links.
| NAME | LOCATION | NAME | LOCATION | |
| ADAMS | VA>GA | LEHTO | MI | |
| AYERS | FL | LEWIS | GA | |
| AYOTTE | CANADA>MI | LINDQVIST | FINLAND>MI | |
| BLANCHARD | GA>FL | MERRITT | NC>FL | |
| BOIVIN | CAN | PEACOCK | VA>NC>GA | |
| BRANNEN | GA>FL | PEEBLES | VA | |
| CHAMPOUX | CAN>MI | POPPELL | FL | |
| DENETTE | CAN>NY>MI | RODGERS | GA | |
| DESERRE | CAN | SLEDGE | VA | |
| DOUCETTE | CAN | SULLIVAN | SC>GA>FL | |
| DUBÉ | CAN | VADNAIS | CAN>MI | |
| DUNAWAY | FL | WARREN | VA>NC>GA>FL | |
| ELY | NC | WHITFIELD | VA>NC>GA>FL | |
| ENGLISH | GA | WOOD | FL | |
| FUTCH | SC>GA | WOODS | GA>FL | |
| HIGHT | GA | WYNN | GA>FL | |
| IVEY | VA>GA>FL | ZEBENDON | FL | |
| KALLIOMÄKI | FINLAND>MI |
Note: All my Finnish ancestor research in Finland is on a separate page.
Links
to Some Florida Research Sites
Florida Cracker
Country
The Florida Department
of State
Florida GenWeb
Project
The Florida State
Archives
The Seminole Tribe
of Florida
Florida State Genealogical
Society
Rootsweb
Resources:
Florida
Tampa-Hillsborough
County Library
Tour of
Florida Seminole Wars
University of South Florida Library
US GenWeb
Archives
US
GenWeb Census Project: Florida
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