First Quillins in America

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I composed this history sheet on 8 July 2017

The Quillin line goes back WAY before America was independent from England.  In the Quillin Book, Chapter 2, page 37, it reads:

 “In ‘The Original List of Persons of Quality Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantation 1600-1700’, edited by John C. Hotten, 1931, we find the name of Teague Quillin, aged 20, who on August 21, 1635 was transported from “Ye Port of London” to Virginia on ‘The Thomas’ and was examined by the Minister of Gravesend regarding his “conformitie in Religion” etc."

After Teague Quillin landed on Virginia’s “eastern shore”, he and his descendants migrated toward Delaware and Maryland, as the New World was better settled in that area.

Early Maryland records state that Teague Quillin was in that state 1657 and 1661, and that Daniel Quillin, a son of Teague, was among the first settlers there.  Daniel Quillin and his wife Lydia had sold 400 acres of land in Accomae County, Virginia August 1665, to John Prettyman before going to Maryland. 

 Torrence in his history “Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,” states that: 

“Daniel Quillane and Lydia his wife came from Northampton Co., Va. 1661; had tithables in Accomae Co. 1663 and 1664; by May 1665 they were in the Morumsco section and had patents in Somerset Co., Md. Nov. 6, 1665, for lands called “The Irish Grove” on the eastern side of Morumsco Creek and “Limbrick” on the northern side of Pocomoke River in the neck of land called “Nassawaddocks.”

Daniel and Lydia's children are documented in baptismal records recorded in the Maryland State archives.  They are : Eliza, Daniel, Teague, Thomas, Judith, Elizabeth.  My research and the MacQuillin Book have our ancestor as son Teague, followed by a long string of Teagues which has caused some confusion. (See my notes in the history sheet for Teague V. * to be posted later) Other trusted researchers of the Quillin line have my ancestors coming from son Thomas.  SO...I'm not sure if our line would have gone through Teague or Thomas...brothers and sons of Daniel. Either way, we are linked to Daniel Quillin, son of Teague the emigrant.

Daniel’s son, Teague II, was born in 1669 in Morumsco section, Somerset County, Maryland.  He married Mary (?) and they relocated to Delaware where Teague III was born.  Teague III married Mary Catherine Herring in Maryland. * I have since found some leads to Mary Herring and Teague through a few Herring Family researchers.

As political pressures from the Church of England mounted, the clan sought refuge in the North Carolina highlands. I am not sure of the death date of Teague III, but in 1784 there is documentation of a land grant to heirs of Teague Quillin (III), 91 acres on Little Yadkin. (That is located in Stokes Co, N.C.)

I believe that Teague IV followed his father to North Carolina. He served in the Revolutionary War from North Carolina.  A land grant in North Carolina was entered on Nov. 30, 1778; issued Oct 13, 1783: to Teague Quillin (IV) 200 acres on Blews Creek, Surry Co., N.C. 

Also entered in N.C. Land Grants : entered April 6, 1779; issued April 3, 1780: To William Quillin 200 acres adjoining Teague Quillin on Blews Creek, Surry Co., N.C.

In 1790, Teague Quillin (IV) sold 200 acres on Blews Creek, Surry Co. N.C.

 Teague V was born in Surry Co. North Carolina, where he met and married Margaret “Peggy” Nation, daughter of Thomas Nation who was the son of Christopher Nation, a documented Captain in the North Carolina Militia, 1766.  He participated as a Regulator, a precursor to the Revolution.  He was held accountable to the King and was eventually pardoned.

Teague V and Margaret Quillin purchased property in Russell County (now Scott County) Virginia in 1790.  (See Teague V history sheet) The rest of my Quillin line lived in or around Gate City, Scott County, Virginia and/or Bristol, Tennessee, a sister city to Bristol, Virginia. 

After two more generations, my great-grandfather Beverly Johnson Quillin moved to Texas.

MacQuillin, Claude. The Quillin (MacQuillin) Family: The MacQuillins in Ireland and The Quillins in America. Compiled by              Milligan Wood Quillen and Mary Kinser Brown. Published by The Quillin Clan: Gate City, Virginia, 1961. Reprinted                 1987. “Truman Bryan Quillin” pp. 133-135.