Généalogie de la famille de PRELLE de la NIEPPE

Event: Guardianship 17 AUG 1779 Berkeley Co., (then VA.) WV. Note: Tavener was made guardian for George and Nelly Hite, orphans of Jacob Hite for a security of 100,000 lbs of tobacco. Note: Taverner is reported to have been the son of his wifes stepmother. He was appointed guardian of his siblings: Charles Beale, Frances Beale, Elizabeth Beale and Anne Beale - Nov 1767 Orange Co., VA. (Ref: William Everett Brockman - Orange County Virginia Families, 1956, p. 78). In May 1776, Taverner was with the Continental Army, as a 1st Lt &Quarter Master of the 8th Virginia Regiment, under Col. Mulhenburg. By 1778, Taverner is reported to have been living in the vincinity of Clifton Forge, Shenandoah Co., VA. (Ref: Ruth and Sam Sparacio \'Virginia County Court Records - Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia (1778-1786), 1986, p. 3) It is reported that after the Revolutionary war, Tavener went south to the Carolina\'s to ransom his mother and sisters from the Indians. Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=flager&id=I06599

Various sources have ascribed Elizabeths birth between 1732 and 1753. It is reported that the instant Elizabeth recieved the obligation to care for Aaron and Farncis Johnston (the offspring of Bryant O\'Bannon) in her grandfathers will of 1761, according to Elizabeth Dehuff. Ref: Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. IV, George Norbury Mackenzie, LLB, 1966 reports that the instant Elizabeth receieved deeds to the estates of his father Jacob at the time of Jacob\'sremoval to South Carolina. One source suggests that Elizabeth\'s Will was probated in Orange Co, VA in 1773, where its also suggested that she died. An additional source re. Elizabeth is: Author: Louise Pecquet du Bellet - \'Some Prominent Virginia Families\', Vol.4, Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, 1907; p. 358. Elizabeth is mentioned in the1776 will of her brother John O\'Bannon Hite. Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=flager&id=I32904