Redheadkelly: Text replacement - "Rosses of Montgomery County" to "Rosses of Montgomery County, Tennessee"

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Text replacement - "Rosses of Montgomery County" to "Rosses of Montgomery County, Tennessee"

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{{SHORTDESC:William Ross Jr., son of William Ross Sr. of Montgomery and Stewart County, Tennessee}}
{{About|the William Ross Jr. documented in Montgomery and Stewart County, Tennessee records, 1805–1829|the distinct William Ross Jr. of the Rocky River land grants, Mecklenburg/Cabarrus County, North Carolina|William Ross Jr. of Rocky River}}
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'''William Ross Jr.''' (before 1784 – after 1829) was a son of [[William Ross Sr. (bef1758-c1811)|William Ross Sr.]] of Montgomery and Stewart County, Tennessee, documented in a series of land transactions there between 1805 and 1829, after which he is recorded as living in Henry County, Tennessee.

== DNA evidence ==

=== Y-DNA ===
No documented direct male-line descendant of this William Ross Jr. has been identified for Y-DNA testing purposes as of this writing.

=== Autosomal DNA ===


== Biography ==
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=== Early life ===
No birth record has been located for William Ross Jr.; his birth is estimated as before 1784 on the basis of the 1805 deed described below.<ref name="1805deed">Montgomery County, Tennessee Deed Book D, pp. 187–188 (17 February 1805).</ref>

=== Montgomery and Stewart County records, 1805–1829 ===
On 17 February 1805, his father William Ross Sr., of Montgomery County, Tennessee, granted him a tract of land on the Little West Fork of the Red River, beginning at Joshua Ross's southeast corner, witnessed by Glidwell Killebrew and David Enloe.<ref name="1805deed" /><ref name="mtgyco-deeds4">Don Simmons and Laura Willis, ''Montgomery County, Tennessee Deeds Volume 4, 1805–1809'' (Simmons Historical Publications, Melber, Kentucky, 1996), pp. 2, 28.</ref>

On 7 March 1807, William Ross Jr. signed a bond to his father in the sum of $2,000, conditioned on the understanding that if he ever made a claim against his father's estate, he would first pay $1,000 with interest before drawing his equal share as a child.<ref name="1807bond">Montgomery County, Tennessee Will Record Book A, p. 450 (7 March 1807).</ref><ref name="willis1805-1814">Laura Willis, ''Montgomery County, Tennessee Wills and Administrations Volume Two, 1805–1814'' (Simmons Historical Publications, Melber, Kentucky, 1995), p. 41.</ref>

On 12 March 1807, William Ross Jr., of Montgomery County, sold William E. Williams a 316-acre tract on the Little West Fork of Red River, beginning at Joshua Ross's southeast corner, for $700, witnessed by Samuel Craft, James Lockert, and John Shelby.<ref name="1807sale">Montgomery County, Tennessee Deed Book D, p. 313 (12 March 1807).</ref><ref name="mtgyco-deeds4" />

On 22 June 1812, in Stewart County, Tennessee, William Ross and Elijah Scruggs witnessed a deed of Thomas Ross to Samuel Ross for 90 acres on the Hays Fork of the Saline.<ref name="1812witness">Stewart County, Tennessee Deed Book D, pp. 296–298 (22 June 1812); Mrs. John Trotwood Moore, ''Tennessee Records of Stewart County Deed Record Book Vol. 4, 1810–1813'' (Works Progress Administration, 1939), p. 71.</ref>

At the Montgomery County Court session of 24 October 1816, a deed of conveyance from William Ross Jr. to Daniel Henderson for 60 acres was proven on the oath of a witness, John Henderson.<ref name="1816deed">Montgomery County, Tennessee County Court Minutes, Volume 6, p. 116 (24 October 1816); ''Transcriptions of the County Archives of Tennessee No. 63, Montgomery County (Clarksville), County Court Minutes Volume 7, 1816–1817'' (Tennessee Historical Records Survey, Works Progress Administration, 1940), p. 62.</ref>

On 2 September 1829, William Ross, by then living in Henry County, Tennessee, sold his rights as heir to his late father's Green Tree Grove property to James Walker of Christian County, Kentucky; the deed was proven in court during the February 1831 term in Stewart County.<ref name="1829deed">Stewart County, Tennessee Deed Book 9 (December 1829 – November 1832), pp. 239–240 (2 September 1829, proven February 1831); "Stewart County, Tennessee Deeds, Direct (Grantor Index)," online at USGenWeb.org (tngenweb.org/stewart/deed/TNStewartGrantorIndex.htm).</ref>

=== Ancestors ===
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|2=William Ross Sr. (bef1758-c1811)
|3=Elizabeth Unknown
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*'''William Ross Jr.'''
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No marriage or children are documented for William Ross Jr. in the sources reviewed for this article.

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== Research notes ==

=== Disputed origins ===
Whether this William Ross Jr. of Montgomery/Stewart County, Tennessee, is the same man as [[William Ross Jr. of Rocky River]] turns on the same open question that applies to their fathers: see [[William Ross Sr. (bef1758-c1811)#Disputed origins|William Ross Sr.]] for the fuller discussion. If the two fathers are eventually shown to be the same man, this individual and the Rocky River William Ross Jr. would likewise merit reconsideration as possibly the same man. No primary source currently supports or rules out that identification.

== Common discrepancies ==
* The "Stewart County, Tennessee Deeds, Direct (Grantor Index)" entry for the 2 September 1829 deed labels the grantor "Ross, William Sr.," while the deed itself and the Montgomery/Stewart County record otherwise identify him throughout as William Ross Jr., son and heir of William Ross Sr.<ref name="1829deed" /> This appears to be an error in the index rather than a change in his own generational identifier.

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Redheadkelly: Text replacement - "Rosses of Montgomery County" to "Rosses of Montgomery County, Tennessee"