More About Family Group 08
The 1623 VA census lists two dead Thomas Prichards, one in Warwick County and the other in James City.
Further Information
The James City Thomas Pritchard later appeared in Warwick court records as Lt. Colonel Thomas Prichard in 1661 and his will as Colonel Thomas Prichard is recorded in Warwick in 1689. He died in 1690 without issue.
The Warwik County Thomas who died before the 1623 census left a son named Thomas as wellborn (of goodly heritage) in 1618. This son is the Captain who petitioned the House of Burgesses from Denbigh Parish in Warwick in 1656. That Thomas died in Westmoreland County in 1670.
Therefore, this latter father/son combination are the progenitors of the Pritchards from the Northern Neck region of Virginia residing in Northumberland, Westmoreland, Richmond, King George, Prince William and Loudoun Counties during the next century.
More About Kit# 68080's Lineage
Here is a more detailed paternal line of our project member, Kit# 68080's paternal line. This project is interested in finding a willing participant to test yDNA from the line of Joshua Prichard, of SC, who migrated to GA. It may be that William Pritchard/Prichard of Clarke Co., GA was a nephew of Joshua Prichard. This is just a working theory, but yDNA testing can help connect this paternal line to the Joshua Prichard line if there is a match. You must be a direct male descendant of Joshua Prichard with the Prichard or Pritchard surname.
1. Possibly William Pritchard/Prichard. On the 1820 Census in Clarke Co. Ga. Was a member of the Clarke Co. Ga. militia in 1822. Received land from the Georgia Land Lottery in Clarke Co. in 1827. Not listed in later census in Ga. If William Pritchard was the father of Elias, he moved to Clarke Co. from South Carolina between 1818 - 1820.
2. Elias B. Pritchard, b. 1817 S. C. d. 1859 Oxford, Calhoun Co. Ala. (m) 19 Jan 1840 Clarke Co. Ga. to Susan A. Crawford, b. 1824 Clarke Co. Ga. d. Bet. 1861-1866 Oxford, Calhoun Co. Ala., daughter of Silas Crawford & Frances Stewart who had married in 1822 in Clarke Co. (1866 Ala. State Census shows William S. Pritchard living next to his grandmother, Frances S. Crawford.)
Elias Pritchard was a Captain in Clarke Co. Militia in 1842. The 1840 Census shows he had no children and 6 servants. The Elias Pritchard Family moved in 1848 with the Silas Crawford Family to Cherokee Co. Ala. They later moved to Oxford in Calhoun Co. Ala. Elias Pritchard had 7 children and only 2 reached adulthood, William S. Pritchard and Sarah Frances Pritchard (1841-1870) who married Lafayette Scoggins.
3. William Silas Pritchard, b. 19 Jun 1845 Clarke Co. Ga. d. 16 Dec 1914 Reform, Pickens Co. Ala. (m) c. 1870 Marrengo Co. Ala. to Lou Cassandra Clements, b. 1850 Calhoun Co. Ala. d. Sept. 1894 Reform, Pickens Co. Ala., daughter of Abihue B. Clements & Nancy Elizabeth Howell. (2nd wife: Mary Jocia McDaniel, (m) 17 Apr 1897 d. 1899; 3rd wife: Martha Idella Davidson, (m) 14 Oct 1900). William S. Pritchard had 18 children. Harvey Pritchard was by the first wife.
4. Harvey Whitfield Pritchard, Sr., b. 23 Jan 1876 Reform, Pickens Co., Ala. d. 2 Dec 1955 Edinburg, Hidalgo Co., Tx. (m) 3 Nov 1898 Reform, Pickens Co. Ala to Annie Kate Joyner, b. 23 Jan 1880 Pickens Co. Ala. d. 2 Oct 1959 Edinburg, Hidalgo Co., Texas, daughter of Orestus Josiah Joyner & Emily Ann Henry.
5. Vassar Hulbert Pritchard, b. 16 Dec 1899 Gordo, Pickens Co. Ala. d. 5 Dec 1982 Livingston, Polk Co. Tx. (m) Jun 6, 1934 Livingston, Polk Co. Tx. to Ruth Cannon, b. 23 Jan 1910 Limestone Co. Tx. d. 3 May 2006 Livingston, Polk Co. Tx., daughter of Stephen Jason Cannon & Pattie Willis.