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Jeremiah Routh Sr.
Born 1740? Randolph Co. NC
Died 1791 Natchez Dist.

SPOUSE	CHILDREN
Margaret Matilda ? m. by 1760? ?NC b. ?VA d. after 1792 ?Natchez Dist.	Elijah b. 1760? ?NC d. 1794 Natchez, Miss. Terr.	Job b. 1762? ?Mechlenberg Co. NC d. Dec 12, 1834 Rapides Parish LA	Jeremiah Jr. b. Aug 18, 1763? ?Natchez Dist. d. 1815?
	Mary Matilda b. 1766? ?NC d. LA	Francis b. ? d.	Zaccheus b. after 1765 ?NC d. 1794 Avoyelles, Miss. Terr. (LA)
In 1759, Jeremiah and probable brother Zachariah were listed in the Rowan Co. NC Tax List.
About 1776, daughter Mary married Isaac Johnson and they lived on the Troy Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. They had 10 children. Son Job Routh named one if his sons Isaac Johnson Routh about 1805.
Map of the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799.
On Jan 18, 1787 a Census of the Natchez District was reported to the commandant, Charles de Grand-Pré: There were 1,926 Individuals; 25 male births, 20 female births, 4 male deaths, 3 female deaths, and 356 were able to carry arms. In Saint Catherine [St. Catherine's Creek section] 10 individuals were counted in the family of "Mark Oiler": 3 white males in age group 1 [Mark, Jonas, William Barland]; 1 white male in age group 2 [Andrew Barland]; 2 white females in age group 1 [Elizabeth, aged 21, and ?]; 1 white female in age group 2 [?dtr of Elizabeth]; 2 male mulatoes in age group 1 [slaves]; 1 female mulatoe in age group 1 [slave]; and 12 cattle; 3 horses, 30 hogs [Baker, wiki website].
On Mar 19, 1789, "Having received notice from Jonas Hailer of the death of his father, Marcus Hailer, commandant [Grand-Pré] and others repaired to his plantation, 1 mile from Fort, to take an inventory of the deceased Marcus Hailer who died interstate [without a will], whereupon Jonas Hailer was interrogated and he made the declaration that his father had no children but the deponent and that he left no wife" [McBee, Book B, pp. 247-8].
In a 1789 deposition after the death of Mark Iler was reported by his son, Jonas, "Joseph Fort" (Joseph Ford Sr., 1724?-1804) said that Mark came to this country from England on the ship Royal Oak with him about 14 years ago [1775] and "he did not know him to be married nor that he had other children than the one present [Jonas] whose mother died in America" [McBee, Natchez Court Records, Book B, p. 64]. Six "young men" came to West Florida in 1775 from England aboard the ship Royal Oak, participated in the West Florida rebellion in Bayou Sara (before it was part of the Natchez Dist. and now within Louisiana), and then settled in the Natchez District [Louisiana Anthology, website].
Historians of the Hope Farm off of Homochitto Street in Natchez believe the back part was built by Mark Iler about the time he arrived there in 1774-5 "while the city was under British rule; the front wing was added by Carlos de Grand-Pré" [Historic Houses of America, American Heritage Books, 1971], after he purchased it from Jonas on Mar 21, 1789 for $100 a parcel of land ... my father Marcus Hailer, purchased" [McBee, pp. 247, 581].
Bayou Sara no longer exists because the Mississippi River now runs through it. In 1820 it was partly in Wilkinson Co. MS (formed in 1802 from a part of Adams Co.) and a part of West Feliciana LA, south of the town of Natchez (see present day map for location of Wilkinson Co. and present day map for location of West Feliciana Parish.
In a letter dated Mar 2, 1790, from Carlos de Grand-Pré, Natchez to Governor Don Estavan Miro, the amount of tobacco produced in 1790 was reported by growers of Natchez. A "Mistress Rou" produced 1000 pounds of tobacco. Also, the "Archd. Miller" plantation reported producing 3,400 pounds of tobacco and a "William Meller" plantation reported producing 100 pounds of tobacco that year [MS Dept of Archives & History, website].
A Spanish grant to "Mark Oiler" for 400 acres on St. Catherine's Creek, 5 mi. east from Fort, bordered by lands of Mr. Andrews and Richard Adams, Lewis Bingaman and Peter Surget (also in the 1792 Natchez Census) was mentioned later as the 400 acres bordering lands of "Mrs. McIntosh" and others, that was "sold by his lawful heir to Christian Harman [McBee, p. 384].
On May 17, 1790, "Jonas Eiler" sold to William Barland "a mulatto woman 'Elizabeth', aged 25, nat. of America, with her four children, for $700 specie, paid" [McBee, p. 78]. If she was the woman identified by the Spanish as the "wife" of Marcus in May 1782, she would have been about 17 years old then.
Jeremiah Routh Sr. died without a will in Natchez in 1791.
Sons Jeremiah Routh Jr. (1763?-1815) and Job Routh, married the twin daughters of Anne Marie Miller. Jeremiah married by 1792 and Job married after 1792. The Rouths and Miller families were the future owners of Dunleith plantation.
Portrait of son Job Routh [find-a-grave website].
In the 1792 Census for the Natchez District, there is a Jeremiah Routh [Jr.] household with two persons and no land, and Job Routh, a single man with 400 arpents of land, both in Villa Gayoso. Also in Villa Gayoso is a single man "Elias Routh" with no land and a "Margarita Routh" household with 3 persons and no land but in Buffalo Creek there is a "Margareta Row" [widow of Jeremiah Sr.] household of 7 persons and 3 slaves on 400 arpents of land. There are two Miller families: "Guillermo Miller", no land but 4 white persons living in Bayou Pierre, and "Roberto Miller", with 6 persons living on 250 arpents of land in Homochitto, part of which became Wilkinson Co. [Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network}.
According to a translation of the 1792 Spanish Census for the Natchez District, there is no Barland household, but there is an "Oiler, the Gentleman" household with 8 white members, and one black, living on 800 arpents of land. This would have to be William Barland, Elizabeth, their five children, and Jonas Iler, the heir of the estate. The translator may have confused "Gentleman" for the Spanish word for widow [Adams Co. Gen. Hist. Network].
In 1794, son Zaccheus Routh died in Avoyelles LA. In his will he lists his wife named "Bord Brege" and only son Benjamin, who was born before 1765 in Mechlenberg Co. NC and married Mrs. Sarah Fowler Stanley.
On Sep 5, 1805, a signed agreement between "Abraham Iler" and the sons of "Mark Iler" was submitted to the Adams Co. Court. A transcription of the agreement which was signed by Abraham Iler, "Jacob Eiler", and "Job Routh". The "believed" death of son Jonas Iler is mentioned. Anne Marie's eldest son, Christopher Miller, also signed the aggreement on the same day "to lend myself as surety that the above named Jacob Iler shall comply" [Adams Co. Chancery Court file, "Estate of Mark Iler (or Eiler) deceased", box no. 49, item 4].
On Sep 26, 1805, an inventory was authorized for the estate of son "Jonas Iler, late of said county [Adams] deceased" [Adams Co. Miss. Terr. Orphan's Court].
The Will and Testament of William Barland, Adams Co., MS, written Jun 19, 1806, proven in Apr 1816. In it he states that on Apr 7, 1789 he "did purchase my friend and companion Elizabeth Barland and three infant children, ... of Jonas Eiler, then of the City of Natchez, of whom the said Jonas Eiler then put me in possession, and furnished me with a legal Bill of Sale..." [Historic Natchez Foundation, Miss. St. Univ., website].
On Nov 3, 1806, Anne Marie Eiler, the mother of two of Jeremiah's daughter-in-laws, died in Natchez "on Monday evening last in the "59th year of her age" [Mississippi Messenger of Natchez, obituary of Mrs. Anne M. Eiler, Nov 4, 1806].
Oldest son Elijah married Jane Osborne but they had no children when Elijah died in 1794 in Natchez. He was buried in Spanish Louisiana.
Jacob Eiler married Eleanor Martha Smith in 1816 at St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish LA. Her tombstone at the Routh Cemetery across from Dunleith Plantation in Natchez reads "Wife Of Jacob Eiler Born 6 Jan. 1797 Died 5 Jan. 1851 Aged 54 Years... Her Remains Here Deposited Near Her Husband's Father & Mother".
In 1820, "Abram Iler" headed a large household of 27 members in Wilkinson Co. MS. On page 364, line 20 of 1820 Wilkinson Co. Census the oldest white males in the household were aged 26-35 [born by 1795], and four were counted. There was one white female aged 45 or older [born by 1775] and one female aged 26-35. 8 members, including 4 slaves, in the household were engaged in agriculture [USGenWeb, website].
In the 1820 Rapides Parish Louisiana Census, page 132, line 30, in the Red River section, there is a William Miller household with 3 children under age 16, a male and female aged 16-26, and a male and female both over the age of 45. The male may be the father of Job's wife (she died that year in LA)
Daughter-in-law Anne Madeleine Routh died on Oct 20, 1820 aged 46. Son Job Routh died in Rapides Parish on Dec 12, 1834 aged 72. They and most of the Millers and Rouths are buried in the Routh Cemetery in Natchez [MSGHN Photo of grave marker].
The will of Jacob Eiler (son of Anne Marie Miller, the mother of the twins who married sons of Jeremiah), dated Mar 15, 1855, probated Sep 1869, mentioned nieces through her son Joash Miller, deceased, and of her son Christopher Miller [Adams Co. Will Book 3, page 371, find-a-grave website].
On Oct 1, 1869, the Obituary of Jacob Eiler appeared in the Vicksburg newspaper with the Natchez Gazette as the source. It stated that he was a Natchez merchant for a number of years; married in 1816; and was the "oldest native resident of this county, born in this county [Adams] in 1797 [sic]" [Vicksburg Daily Times, 01 Oct 1869, Fri, page 1]. In Natchez Sexton Records - Jacob died Sep 28, 1869 aged 83.6 Years as recorded by Dr. J. S. King.
Sources: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. Baker, Anne, www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eiler-186, last updated Mar 23, 2024. MS Dept. Archives & Hist., Will Book Vol. 1, Adams Co. Courthouse, Natchez MS, microfilm, Apr 1816. McBee, May Wilson, comp., "Land Claims", in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Book F, p.21. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, p. 596, Book A, pp. 64, 78, Book B, pp. 84, 247-8. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, rootsweb, Americans Arriving in Spanish-Held Natchez 1788-1790. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, rootsweb, Early Mississippians in Spanish Natchez. MSGenWeb, Natchez District 1792 Census Index, comp. by Ellen Pack, website, transcribed and translated from Spanish. Potter, Dorothy Williams, Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823, Gateway Press, Baltimore MD, 1982, p. 342. Rapides Parish, 1820 Census, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 132. Univ. of NC, Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, "Roster of the Troops in the Continental Army", vol. 16, on website, 1st Reginment, pp. 1060, 1073. Wells, Carol, Natchez Postscripts 1781-1798, Heritage Books, pp. 101, 144-5, 151, Whitley, Edythe Rucker, comp., Pioneers of Davidson Co., Tennessee, Clearfield Publ., 2009.