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Joseph Cloud[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Male circa 1710 - circa 1779  (~ 69 years)


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  • Name Joseph Cloud 
    Born circa 1710  Chester county, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16] 
    Gender Male 
    Died circa 1779  Henry county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [17, 18] 
    Notes 
    • Joseph Cloud's lineage is not known with certainty.  There is evidence that his parents are Joseph Cloud and Ruth Jervis.
      http://mykindred.com/cloud/TX/getperson.php?personID=I52493&tree=mykindred01
      Joseph's wife is also unknown, though her surname is believed to be MOORE.
      Raymond Shirley wrote (2005):
          "The continuation of the genealogy of my Cloud family line back in time beyond this generation is based upon the work of numerous Cloud researchers who have spent countless hours in the musty basements of county court houses and the reading rooms of libraries scattered all over this country.  These researchers have submitted their findings to the Cloud family historian, Janice G. Cloud, for  publication in the Cloud Family Journal.
          My thanks goes to Quaker genealogist Gilbert Cope of West Chester, PA, Thomas Maxwell Potts' work on the Cloud family, Rachel Pond's book on William Cloud and his descendants, Janice G. Cloud, Cloud family historian and editor and publisher of the Cloud Family Journal.
          Harry Hogan and I have amassed a very large collection of documents covering the movements of Joseph and Isaac Cloud during the population migration south out of Pennsylvania and Delaware across Virginia and into North Carolina.  Harry has done an excellent analysis of these documents.  The analysis has been published in The Cloud Family Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 1, pages 14 - 17, Vol. XXII, No. 4, pp 85 - 92 and Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1 & 2, pp 8 - 15.
          I owe a special thanks to Sherrill Cloud and Dee Ann Lamb whose research pointed me in the right direction."
    Person ID I68803  mykindred
    Last Modified Aug 30, 2017 

    Family Nancy (?) Moore,   b. circa 1721,   d. Y 
    Married circa 1740  Anson county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Jeremiah Cloud,   d. Y
     2. Benjamin Cloud,   b. 1747, Lunenburg county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Y
     3. Jason Cloud,   b. 1747, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1827, Campbell county, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     4. Isaac Cloud,   b. circa 1746, Brunswick county, Virginia ? Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. circa 1825, Rutherford county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 79 years)
     5. Capt. William Cloud, R.S.,   b. Sep 17, 1750, Anson county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 08, 1842, Chum, Carroll county, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years)
     6. Capt. Joseph Cloud,   b. circa 1755, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Mar 12, 1828, Stokes county, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 73 years)
    Family ID F22731  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1155] Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virg, Vol. V, Nov. 1, 1739 - May &, 1754, p 146.
      May 3, 1744, Joseph Cloud and others were granted ten thousand acres of land in Brunswick (later Pittsylvania) County, VA beginning at the mouth of Marrowbone Creek on the Southside of Irwin River and running up the creek and river.

    2. [S1155] Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virg, Vol. V, Nov. 1, 1739 - May 7, 1754, p 264.
      November 8, 1748, John Donalson, tidence Lane, Richard Lane Sr., Richard Lane Jr. and Joseph Cloud sold land in Lunenburg County, VA to James Terry.

    3. [S1155] Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virg, Vol. V, Nov. 1, 1739 - May 7, 1754, p 282.
      April 8, 1749, John Dawson, Joseph Cloud and James Terry were granted twelve thousand acres near the Tarrarat and Yadkin Rivers thence up both sides.

    4. [S1157] Lunenburg County, VA Order Book, 1748 - 1752, p 155.
      June Court Term, 1749, Joseph Cloud was appointed surveyor of part of the new road leading from the Staunton River to the Mayo settlement at the Wart Mountains.

    5. [S1158] NC State Archives, File No. C. R. 044.701.20.
      Joseph Cloud, John Gibson and James Lankford were on the 1751 list of tithables on the Dan River in Granville (later Rockingham and Stokes) County, NC.

    6. [S1159] Deeds of Rowan County, NC, 1753 - 1785.
      In 1755 Joseph Cloud Sr. purchased 150 acres on south side of the Dan River from James Watkins Sr.. The price was 45 pds. Virginia money.

    7. [S1161] Abstracts of Minutes of Court of Pleas and Quarter.
      Joseph Cloud recorded his brand in 1755. The brand was a swallow fork in the left ear and a crop off the right.

    8. [S1161] Abstracts of Minutes of Court of Pleas and Quarter, 1755.
      Joseph Cloud was appointed deputy surveyor for Rowan County, NC.

    9. [S1161] Abstracts of Minutes of Court of Pleas and Quarter, 1759.
      Rowan County Court ordered that Joseph Cloud's mill on Rock Horse Creek be recorded a public mill.

    10. [S1164] Pittsylvania County, VA Entry Book, 1737 - 1770, April 9, 1763.
      Joseph Cloud entered 400 acres on Peter's Creek beginning at a White Oak marked J.C., thence down both sides of the creek.

    11. [S1135] Rowan County, NC Tax Lists, 1757 - 1800, 1771.
      Petition to the NC House of Burgesses from the Inhabitants dwelling on the three creeks of the Catawba River, Rowan County. Contains list of Tyths in the "Settlement on Dan River, Peter's Creek, the Grat Creek, Doble & Elk Creek, Snow Creek." Petition was written by John Deatherage and signed by Joseph Cloud Sr., Joseph Cloud Jr., William Cloud, Isaac Cloud . . . also five Langfords, including William Langford (Lankford) who was the father of Isaac Cloud's wife.

    12. [S1169] Stokes County NC Historical Documentation, The Cus, 1772.
      Joseph Cloud Sr. submitted a petition addressed to NC Governor Josiah Martin demanding payment to Quakers for flour and grain furnished to the Provincial Army in its actions against the Regulators.

    13. [S1170] Surry County, NC Will Abstracts, p 32.
      March 10, 1774 Joseph Cloud Sr. gave a Bill of Sale to Isaac and Jason Cloud, "My mill and improvements on Peter's Creek for 100 pds. Sterling." The sale was witnessed by Joseph Cloud Jr. and John Lankford.

    14. [S1128] Gedcom - Shirley, Raymond.

    15. [S2030] Cloud Family Association Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 1, pp 14 - 17 & Vol. XXII, No. 4, pp 85 - 92.
      Harry Hogan's articles on Isaac and Joseph Cloud.

    16. [S1166] Sandra Lovett, Irma Kemp Papers.
      Letter dated 1987 from James Brewton of California. He wrote, "Joseph Cloud, son of Joseph and Ruth (Jervis) Cloud, was born 1710 in Concord, PA, married Nancy Moore on 1740 in Virginia and she was born in 1717. Children: (1) Joseph, born 1741 Brunswick, VA died 1825 (actually was 1828); (2) Isaac born 1743 in Brunswick, VA, (3) Jason, born 1747 in Lunenburg County, VA, (4) Benjamin born 1747 in Lunenburg County, VA (twins?). This is all I have on this family."
      Mr. Brewton did not cite his sources and they have not been found to this date, 2005.

    17. [S1138] A History of Henry County, Virginia, p 305.
      Joseph Sr. and his son, Joseph Jr., took the oath of allegiance to the newly established Federal government. The oath was administered in 1777. This Joseph Cloud's name has not been found in any later records.

    18. [S1171] Henry County, VA Tax List, 1779.
      Joseph paid tax on land along Turkey Cock Creek, Elk Creek and Mill Creek near Mayo River.