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The only Rounsavall in 1830 Mississippi with a son less than 10 is this
William in Copiah Co. There is one other Sirus Rounsavill (note spelling)
in Franklin Co.
!The only Rounsavall in 1830 Mississippi with a son less than 10 is this
William in Copiah Co. There is one other Sirus Rounsavill (note spelling)
in Franklin Co.
According to the 1840 census, William had 4 sons and 4 daughters. He moved back and forth between Mississippi and Louisiana.
Isaac was one of the settlers who arrived by land and settled at Heaton's Station in Tennessee. Signer of the Cumberland Compact in May of 1780. Listed in the North Carolina Preemption Act of 1784 as one of the settlers on the Cumberland who was too young for a grant under the 1782 Preemption Act, but now he is entitled to 640 acres. Listed with his father David and uncle Josiah Rounsavall on the 1787 Davidson County, Tennessee tax roll.
He entered into an indenture made on December 14, 1793 between Isaac Rounsavall of Logan County, Kentucky and Daniel Young of Davidson County, Tennessee. He conveyed unto Daniel Young a tract of land containing 150 acres in Davidson County on the west side of Whites Creek adjoining John Drake's land. Said land was part of a tract granted to David Rounsavall by a patent dated 1786, No. 11 and further a parcel of a tract containing 600 acres in Davidson County, Tennessee on the west side of White's Creek on the south side of Frederick Stunp's Preemption, being part of said Stump's Preemption which he sold to the above Isaac Rounsavall by Deed of Conveyance dated March 23, 1790, containing 3 acres being also part of Frederick Stump's Preemption. Witnesses: Lemuel Harvey and Elisha Phelps. Isaac later moved to Louisiana in January of 1837.