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Job Routh
Born 1762? Mechlenberg Co. NC
Died Dec 12, 1834 Rapides Parish LA

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SPOUSE	CHILDREN
Anna Marie Miller m. 1793? ?Natchez Dist. b. 1774 ?Dunmore Co. VA d. Oct 20, 1820 St. Francisville LA	Elizabeth b. Jan 9, 1794 ?Natchez Dist. d. Oct 31, 1855 Pineville, Rapides Parish LA	John b. Aug 18, 1795 Natchez Dist. d. Oct 11, 1867 Tensas Parish LA	Caroline Matilda b. Sep 14, 1798 Natchez Dist. d. Nov 6, 1863 Natchez MS
	Laura Ann b. 1799 ?Natchez Dist. d.	Francis b. Jun 9, 1801 ?Natchez, Miss. Terr. d. May 28, 1878 LA	Sarah Jane b. Jan 17, 1803 ?Natchez, Miss. Terr. d. May 16, 1836
	Isaac Johnson b. 1805? Natchez, Miss. Terr. d.	Stephen Minor b. Dec 18, 1808 ?Natchez Miss. Terr. d. Jul 11, 1858 ?Natchez MS	Anna M. b. 1810? Natchez, Miss. Terr. d. Aug 18, 1866 Berkeley Sprgs, Morgan Co. VA
	Mary Malvina b. Jun 1, 1813 Natchez, Miss. Terr. d. Mar 4, 1858 Natchez MS
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].
In 1787, a George Forney sold to Marcus Tyler [Iler], "140 arpents he purchased from John Row, near the Fort, bordered by lands of John Hartley, John Lusk and Saint Germain, for $400, $200 at end of present year [1787]; $100 at end of 1788; $100 at end of 1789" [McBee, Book A, p. 64]. This may be where Iler had begun building Hope Farm, which was eventually bought by Natchez District Commandant Charles de Grand-Pré to be his residence.
On Nov 3, 1788 "Margaret Tyler" (likely Marcus' wife) was one of the witnesses of the will of Anne Gaillard [McBee, Book B, p. 59].
On Dec 31, 1788 a "William Miller" family of 3 (man, woman, child) arrived in the Natchez District from the Choctaw Nation [MDAH, Americans Arriving in Spanish-Held Natchez, 1788-1791, 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].
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].
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].
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. No Rouths produced tobacco but a "Mistress Rou" produced 1000 pounds that year. 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].
Acording to Routh fmily history papers, Job came to Natchez in Mar 1790 from Kentucky [MDAH, Routh-Williams-Smith Family Papers]. No Rouths were recorded as arriving in Natchez between 1788 and 1790, but a "Carlos Smith" arrived with many flatboat passengers on Feb 23, 1790 [MDAH, "Americans Arriving in Spanish-Held Natchez 1788-1790"].
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.
Brothers Jeremiah Routh Jr. (1763?-1815) and Job Routh, married the twin daughters of Anne Marie Miller. The Rouths and Miller families were the future owners of Dunleith plantation.
In the 1792 Census for the Natchez District, there is a Jeremiah Routh [brother] 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].
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, mother-in-law Anne Marie Eiler 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].
Son John married Nancy Ann Smith (1793-1845) on Sep 25, 1815. She was born in the Natchez District, the daughter of Richard Philetus Smith (1760-1806) and Mary Thompson (1765-after 1810) [find-a-grave, website].
Portrait of Job Routh [find-a-grave website].
Daughters Elizabeth and Caroline both married into the Williams' family. Apr 22, 1813 Elizabeth married Archibal Pierce Williams in Natchez. They lived on a plantation called Willow Glen near Pineville in Rapides Parish. It was burned by Union forces during the Civil War. She died in 1855 and is buried in Mt. Olivet Church Cemetery in Pineville. Caroline married Austin Williams on Apr 15, 1817 in Natchez and she died there in 1863.
In the 1816 Adams Co. MS Census, page 22 (line 24), there was a household "Job Routh" with one male adult [Job], 3 males under 21 [Isaac, Stevn, Francis], one female over 21 [wife Anna Marie Miller], 5 females under 21 [Caroline, Laura, Sarah, Anna, Mary], and 10 slaves [MDAH, 1816 Adams Co. Census, microfilm].
Daughter Laura Ann married William Lane, and daughter Sarah married William Watson Walker.
Daughter Anna married Dr. Elias Ogden.
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".
St. Francisville is a city along the northwest bank of the Mississippi River. See present day map for location in West Feliciana Parish. Wilkinson Co. was formed in 1802 from a part of Adams Co. and a part of West Feliciana Parish, south of the town of Natchez (see present day map for location of Wilkinson Co.)
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).
Wife "Ann" Madeleine Routh died on Oct 20, 1820 aged 46. 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].
Daughter Ann married William Lane and later Elias Ogden.
Daughter Mary married at least twice, to Thomas G. P. Ellis May 14, 1828, and then to Brig. Gen. Charles Gustavus Dahlgren (CSA) in 1840. He died in 1858.
Son Francis married Mary H. Lane.
In the 1830 Adams Co. MS Census, on line 53 of image 25, Job Routh, aged 60-70, was in a single household near son John Routh's family on line 2, and a "Jas. or Joe Eiler" and wife, aged 40-50 and aged 30-40, on line 3 [U.S. 1830 Adams Co. MS Census, familysearch.org website].
Son Steven Routh married Ann Elizabeth Spriggs on May 17, 1831 at the family plantation Evergreen near Alexandria LA.
The will of Jacob Eiler (son of mother-in-law Anne Marie Miller), dated Mar 15, 1855, probated Sep 1869, mentioned nieces through her son Joash Miller, deceased, and of her son Christopher Miller. A codecil dated May 11, 1868 replaced two executors "Since John Routh and Thomas Henderson have died" [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. MDAH, Adams Co. MS 1816 Census, Territorial Census 1801-1816 website, microfilm. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, "Routh-Williams-Smith Papers", Online Catalog website. MSGenWeb, Natchez District 1792 Census Index, comp. by Ellen Pack, website, transcribed and translated from Spanish. North Carolina Land Grants, Davidson Co. TN, #2991, website 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. U.S. Census, 1830, Adams Co. MS, City of Natchez, microfilm, familysearch.org, website. Wells, Carol, Natchez Postscripts 1781-1798, Heritage Books, pp. 101, 144-5, 151.