Way of Liberty County
Moses Way, son of William
Way and his wife, Persis
Witt, was born 13 June 1672 in Dorchester, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts and died 1 November 1737 in Stonoe, Colleton
County, South Carolina.
He married Sarah on 14 May 1694 in Dorchester
County, South Carolina,
and had the following
Children:
I. Parmenas Way was
born 1695/6 Dorchester County,
South Carolina. Immediately after
the land was surveyed for the Puritans in Georgia, Parmenas
Way was granted the first 500 acres, being bounded south by lands possessed by
Nathan Taylor, west and westerly and east by lands possessed by John Davis and
Marsh, at the head of the Midway River.
II.
Joseph Way died before 1790 Liberty County)
III. Parthena
Way.
IV.
Stephen Way.
V. Sarah Way.
VI.
Moses Way was born 1734 in South Carolina,
died Liberty County 1786. He migrated to Georgia in 1754
with the Puritans, settling at Midway. He served as a Lieutenant, then as
Captain of the Georgia Militia. He married first Lydia Mitchell in 1756 (she
died 1765) and on 12 May 1766 he later married in Liberty County,
Ann Winn. Children by the first wife were: Lydia, John and William ; and by the
second wife were: Mary, born 1767 married Samuel Jones, Jr., son of Samuel
Jones and Rebecca Baker, the daughter of William Baker and Sarah Osgood.
(Roster of Revolutionary War Soldiers) He served as a Lieutenant, then Captain
of the Georgia Militia. He married 1st, in 1756, Lydia Mitchell who died in
1765, and 2nd, in 1766, Ann Winn. Mrs. Ann Way, widow of Moses Way, died in
1790 Liberty County when Mrs. Mary
Jones, daughter, and John Winn, son of Mrs. Ann Way, applied for Letters
of Administration.
Children by the first wife
were:
A.
Lydia Way who married 1st in 1774, Peter Sallens,
married 2nd, John Foster
B.
John Way
married on 12 February 1790, Mrs. Sarah Goulding, in Liberty County.
C.
William Way.
Child by second wife were:
D.
Mary Way,
born 1767 married Samuel Jones, Jr., the son of Samuel Jones and his wife,
Rebecca Baker, the daughter of William Baker and Sarah Osgood.