James Marks, who may be the son of the William Marks who shows up on the 1800 Census for Chatham County, NC, named a son Elias. Interesting how these names are repeated throughout this Marks family.
Can you provide more information on your Elias and Vincent? Have you DNA tested?
I have Y-DNA tested a male Marks cousin and he has no matches at 37 or 67 Markers. I recently Y-DNA tested another male Marks cousin and results are pending. We are in FTDNA Group R1b grouped by haplogroup (R-M269). None of the other men in the Group show up on the match list in FTDNA though - we just all have the same haplogroup.
Both of the Y-DNA testers descend from John Marks who is the brother of James Marks noted above. Both John and James are probably the sons of the elder William Marks who is on the 1800 Census for Chatham County, NC. I have no idea where the elder William Marks came from. There is a possibility that he is the same William Marks listed on the 1790 Census for Warren County, NC. Without a doubt, the Warren County, NC Marks have a connection back to the Richmond County, VA Marks. The names that are repeated in old Bute/Warren County, Fennell Marks, Francis Thornton, Doser Thornton, William Marks, are just too much to be a mere coincidence.
Another cousin has a 43 cM atDNA match to a Marks male who claims descent from Edward Marks, (possible?) son of John Marks and Hannah Eidson through a Thomas B. Marks (m. Annis Coker) of Edgecombe County, NC. Both have estate files at Family Search. Edward Marks does have a Rev War file but there is nothing in it that makes a connection to John Marks and Hannah Eidson as far as I can tell. No Edward is mentioned in the will of John Marks and I have not found documentation to prove this claim. I have asked the administrator of his DNA test to upgrade to Y-37 or Y-67 if possible to see if he is a match to my Marks males.
In looking at the transcribed will of John Marks in VA, the only children mentioned are:
daus Betty Bruce, Francis Bragg, Penelope Carter, Mary Wilson, Hannah Bruce, Sarah Crask, Susannah Crask, Anne Newman
sons William, John, Elias, Fennell
grdau Jane Newman, dau of Anne Newman
grson William Marks (inherited in lieu of father Fennell who has died - Fennell Marks in Bute Co, NC did die in 1777, 14 years before John Marks died in VA)
I thought it may be possible that the William Marks mentioned in 1790 Warren County, NC might be the son of Fennell Marks, but it is just not possible. I cannot make the timeline fit. I can make the timeline fit with the William Marks in Chatham County, NC in 1800. All of his children were born between ~1774 and ~1780. (William 1774, James 1775, John 1776, George 1777, Susan 1779, Ewell, 1780)
William Marks on the 1790 Census is listed with 7 children, 5 males under age 16 in 1790, making the oldest born about 1774. The ages are nearly exact to the known siblings of my John and James Marks in Chatham County, NC. There is also the evidence that Temperance Wright Marks (from Warren County, NC) had a brother named Ewell and my John and James also had a brother named Ewell (not a common name).
If Fennell Marks was born about 1740, he probably married about 1765, children came along 1766 or 67 and the oldest child would be about 21 years old in 1788. This timeline does not allow for the William Marks to be married with 7 children by 1790. So, Fennell and William could have been brothers or even cousins. No children are mentioned in Fennell's estate file, only his wife, Amey, who is somehow connected to Thomas Newman who was bondsman.
Name William Marks
Home in 1790 (City, County, State) Warren, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 5 (sons William 1774, James 1775, John 1776, George 1777, Ewell, 1780)
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1 (William Marks)
Free White Persons - Females: 3 (wife Temperance and 2 daus Susan 1779, and 1 unknown (perhaps Elizabeth?)
Number of Household Members: 9
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