"Quirk, Edmund - b. 1759 Virginia, son of John and Rebecca Quirk. They resided in a part of Virginia that later became part of the newly formed state of Kentucky, resulting in confusion about birthplaces. In various records, Edmund is spelled Edmond or Edward. In most Texas records his name is Edmond or Edmund.
1775 - American Revolution
John and his sons Edmund (Edward) and Thomas are listed as having served in the Revolutionary War.
--Edward Quirk, Index of Revolutionary Records in Virginia State Archives.
(Source: Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution by Gwthman, p. 645)
--Thomas Quirk is listed with a list of officers and men from Virginia who served on the continental line under Commander George Washington. He is listed as a Subaltern. (Source: Virginia Military Records, p. 415, 418)
Edward (Edmond) Quirk is listed as fighting in the American Revolution.
(Source: "Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution 1775-63" by John H. Givathmey, Richmond Va. 1938, p. 645 and Index of the Revolution Records in the Virginia State Archives compiled by Dr. H. J. Eckenrode, 1912, 1914; "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution Vol.
1, page 363.)
1799
Edward (Edmund Sr.) claimed a preemption of 400 acres of land lying on Quirks Creek or Quirks Run in Boyle County, joining the lands of Samuel Kirkham. He settled in 1779, and satisfactory proof being made to the Court, they were of the opinion that Quirk has right to the 400 acres.
(Source: Certificate Book of the Virginia Land Commission 1779-1780, p. 61)
1783
In August of 1783, Edward Quirk was listed residing in Lincoln County, Kentucky. (Source: Kentucky Genealogist Vol 11, No 1, 1969)
Edmund Quirk is listed as being sued several times in Kentucky, and in one case he was ordered to pay 96 pounds. He also served on a jury in Kentucky.(Source: Kentucky Genealogist, Vol 7, No. 4, p. 137, 141)
1792
Anne Eulalia Querk , daughter of Edmond and Anne Alsup, born in nation of the "Jactas:(Choctaws). (Source: Natchitoches by Mills. Abstracts of Catholic Church Registers of French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste Des Natchitoches in Louisana. 1729-1803, Vol. II. Cane River Creole Series, Polyanthos 1977, p. 262)
1796)
Anne Eulalia Querk, January 3, 1796, baptism of Anne Eulalia, aged four years, daughter of Edmond Querk and Anne Olsup, now living at this post. Godparents: Placide Bosquet and Eulalie Bosquet.
Source: Natchitoches by Mills - full reference in 1792 entry for Anne.)
1799-1800
"Edmund Quirk, Sr., came from Virginia to Louisiana and into Texas first in 1792. He lived until sometime close the the Battle of San Jacinto and died either in Nacogdoches or San Augustine. (Source: Notes of Rev. Anton J. Frank)
He married Maria Anna Alsop and they migrated to Texas, settling on land on Bayou La Nana -eight miles east of Sabine River; land settled in 1819; killed by John Bodine in 1835 in San Augustine; Census Records 1799, 1801, 1804, 1824 Neutral Land Claims." (Source: A Biographical Directory 1773-1849)
Spanish established in east Texas the mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores in 1716, on Ayish Bayou but abandoned it in 1773. In 1794 Antonio Leal and his wife settled in the old mission site. Leal and his business partner Philip Nolan captured and sold wild horses. Nolan was killed by the Spanish and Leal and his wife were deported to Bexar. To pay legal fees, Leal's family sold the land to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Magazine Texas Co-Op Power, page 8-14, date not noted)
1799 Census of Nacogdoches, December 31
Mr. Quirk, American, married , native of Philadelphia, age 45, occupation fieldman Maria, his wife, native of America
3 sons ages 14, 10, 6 (Source: "Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. I, p. 318-319, G976.4)
Edmund Quirk, February 19, 1800 - was granted 4 leagues from the Spanish government by Commissioner Zejeda in San Augustine County. (Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 69, p. 236)
February 19, 1800 The Teguitana grant was made by Lieut. del Moral to Antonio Leal. Sold by Leal to Pedro Benigas, and then sold to Edmund Quirk. In his petition for title, the property was described as 4 leagues, including buildings, farms, fields, livestock, farming implements.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, by Blake, Vol. B. p. 12-14.)
"Quirk purchased 4 leagues of land buying both sides of Ayish Bayou (where town of San Augustine now stands). Land originally granted to Antonio Leal by Capt. Antonio Gil Ybarbo founder of Nacogdoches.(Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G. R. Crockett, at the S. F. Austin University Library.)
1801
"Number of foreigners in the Texas Frontier 1801 Census of Nacogdoches -- Pueblo of Nacogdoches - history of the foreigners in the pueblo and its entire jurisdiction with a statement of names, nationalities, conditions ages, time of residence and occupation. REIMUNDO QUERQUE, (also given in Spanish as Raymundo Kuerque) - American, native of Virginia, married, 45 years of age, residence 4 years, farmer. (By this it would seem that Edmond [Edmund] Quirk was born in1756 - which would tally with the 1834 census of San Augustine giving his birth as 1757). From this he was in Texas as early as 1797. Edmund Quirk, Sr., an American Revolutionary soldier, who was born in Pennsylvania, served in the War from Virginia and who came first to Louisiana and then to Texas in 1792. Quirk had a plantation on the Ayish Bayou in East Texas, worked by slaves, and once owned the site of the old mission at San Augustine, Tex. He was a prisoner in the Alamo after being captured by the Mexicans as a member of the Magee-Guiterrez Expedition but escaped. Quirk is featured in a moving exhibit on the bicentennial prepared by scholars at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio, a part of the University of Texas system. He will also be listed on a large bronze plaque to be placed in the Capitol at Austin on or before July 4 of this year. This plaque is sponsored by the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution and lists 40 soldiers of the American Revolution who came to Texas, lived and died in Texas. Edmund Quirk Sr. died in1836 in San Augustine and is buried there.
(Source: newspaper article, 1976, paper and date not noted, "Southwest Historical Quarterly,
Notes and Documents, Vol. 66, p. 476-77)
1802
Case over horse Edmund sold to Christian Hesser that was claimed by Dennis Linman. (Source: Bexar Archives: A Name Guide, p. 544)
1803
Finding that land he had purchased from Antonio Leal was not suitable for summer pasture for his herd of cattle, Edmund Quirk petitioned Lieutenant Governor Miguel Musquiz for a grant of land at "Arroyo de Dragoon, ... western part of Sabine River, 3 leagues from its banks ... one league in each principal direction, in such a manner to form a perfect square, which fronts are two leagues in length and the said plain may be the center of said square. .. in this space of land, I being able to have sufficient summer pasture for my present cattle and those that will be reared, ... I beg of you that you grant me this favor which I hope to deserve of the equity of your honor. Nacogdoches, May 12, 1803, Edmund Quirk" This petition was passed to Don de la Bega to investigate if the land was vacant, and if so to grant it to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol. 4, p. 200-201, University of Texas Archives, Austin)
1807
Edmund Quirk made another application for confirmation of title of ownership for his land on the Sabine River near Nacogdoches. (Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G.L Crockett, take at S.F. Austin University Library)
Edmund Quirk's petition for title was granted February 21, 1807 by Don Franco Viena, Adjutant Inspector of Nacogdoches.(Source: Bexar Archives by Blake ,Vol. B. p. 16)
1808
Case against Edmund Quirk for contraband of horses. His wife petitions for return of confiscated stock.
Source: (Bexar Archives, 1717-1836, A Name Guide, p. 545.)
1809
"Although he is called Edmond Quirk is almost universally in Texas records and usually in in Nacogdoches Records. He is also referred to as Edward from time to time."
(Source: First Census of Texas 1829-36 p. 4, "Census of San Augustine District or Municipality 1834-36") "The Texas Census of 1809 between Nacogdoches and Sabine River showed Edmund Quirk absent, Anna Alsop (his wife) age 50 (born 1759) Edmond Jr. age 22 (born 1787) Anna Quirk, age 15 (born 1794) all born in Virginia."
(Source: Texas Census of 1809)
"Life and Activities of Anna Alsop, August 16, 1809 -- Sworn statement which I, Anna Alsop, make of my nativity and the rest that I shall express in the following manner: Anna Alsop, of the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion, a native of Pennsylvania, of the United States of American,and having with her little ones gone to Kentucky, in this place she married Edmund Quirk, a native of the Province of Virginia of the same States, with whom he came to the province of Louisiana,and they came to this Post of Nacogdoches in the year 1800, where they established themselves ona ranch, from which her said husband separated himself, a fugitive, and she who explains maintains herself with her labor; she has one unmarried son and a daughter; and not having documents to add to this her statement, she makes a sign of a cross, because of not knowing how to write; Don Jose de la Bega and Don Manuel Bustamante who signed, being witnesses in Nacogdoches, August 16, 1809.
Witness: Sign of a Cross of
Jose Luis de la Bega X
Anna Alsop
Witness: Manuel Bustamante"
(Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol 6, p. 406, University of Texas Archives, Austin, Texas,
research by Mamie Bavouset)
1810
In the report of Don Jose Maria Guadiana, Commandant of the village of Nacogdoches, on foreigners living there and their conduct, he states that Edmund Quirk, Sr., (father-in-law of resident Anthony Parrot) "is a fugitive from here and makes his residence in the Province of Louisiana, and also between the Arroyo Hondo and the Sabine River, united with other foreigners. On account of the short distance that intervenes from said Sabine to Ays Bayou, the
communication is not difficult, which the said Quirk may be able to have with his son-in-law and family."
(Source: Bexar Archives, by Blake, Vol. 7, p.111-112)
Henry Quirk, the brother of Edmund, is tried and confesses to conducting illegal horse trading between the Spanish Texas and Louisiana. Henry states that he had been living on the ranch of his brother Edmund since September 1807 and that he went from this ranch to Natchez, then to
Natchitoches buying and selling horses. Henry states he engaged in this illegal business to make money to send to his poor mother living in Kentucky.1811
"Letter from John Sibley, Indian Agent Natchitoches, Louisiana to Secretary Flores 'On the 5th ____ Mr. Edmund Quirk arrived here from Nacogdoches and gave me at my own house the following information ... this day a Mr. Chilens confirmed the account of a general revolution in the Kingdom of Mexico."
(Source: "Texas Letters in 1811" published by the Yonagua Society, San Antonio, 1941, Vol. 6, page 160.)
1812
Edmund Quirk takes part in Gutierrez-Magee Expedition against the Spanish. He was captured at the battle of Medina, was jailed in the Alamo and released.
(Source:Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 66, pp. 476-77)
Later he joined the Major Guiterrez Expedition and marched to San Antonio where after initial success the expedition became disorganized and later under General Toledo was beaten in the Battle of Medina. Quirk was taken prisoner and for several months lay prisoner in one of the cells of the Alamo Mission. He escaped and was next in the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana with his sons Edmund Jr. and William.
1814-1819
In the meantime, the Spanish cleared out all foreigners from the Nacogdoches San Augustine - Sabine area and left this country empty. A few years later inhabitants started coming back and some joined the Long Expedition of 1819. (As late as 1818 Edmond was still in Natchitoches from records in San Augustine County Courthouse. (General Index to Deeds No. 1, Book B P. 88, Book F, pp. 123-24 which copies of records in Natchitoches Louisiana 1818. (He was there in April 17, 1814, according to the Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. III, page 230. 'Claims in the Western District of Louisiana where he had land on Dieu Domine stream also Bayou La Nana. His brother Henry had received land on Bayou Pierre April 26, 1790 from Spanish Title, page 623, (Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. I, printed Washington D.C. by Gales and Seaton in 1832.) So did Chireno. All three went back and forth between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches.
1818
Edmund Quirk, Sr. conveys portions of his land on Ayish Bayou to his three sons-in-law . Raymond Daley, Letney Parrott and John Ayres all served with the pirate Lafitte at the battle of New Orleans and in Galveston. When Lafitte left Galveston, they remained in Texas. Parrott married Edmond Sr.'s daughter Martha. Daley married his daughter Ann. (Daley was her second husband. Louis Ayres married a daughter or granddaughter.
Lafitte's records list: Raymon Daley 1818 apprentice seametre; Latney Parrott 1904-1819 - Gardien de Cassin; Louis de Ayres - 1817 - carpenter.
(Source: Notes for Two Centuries of East Texas" by G.L. Crockett, done at S.F. Austin University Library)
1821
Mexico expels Spanish and Mexican Government now controls Texas, including Nacogdoches where Edmund Quirk still claimed land.
1824
Edmund Quirk was back in he Nacogdoches San Augustine area by 1824 (and maybe earlier) because of the change of government, to keep his lands -- he had stayed out of Texas after he escaped from the Alamo in 1812, as long as Spain was in control, but after 1821-22 Mexico was in control, he came back.
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol XXXIII page 296 shows petition of 35 Anglo settlers on the Attoya and Sabine on February 16, 1824 to Don Jose Atonio Saucedo, Political Chief of the Province of Texas that 'Edmond Quirk claims under an old Spanish Grant to have a right to 12 sq. miles of land --- these are the best between Nacogdoches and the Sabine River --- over 20 American families have settled on it ... But the Sr. Quirk is employing every possible means for intimidating and molesting these settlers. He personally went to their houses (remember he was at least 66 at this time) prohibiting them to cut timber, clearing lands or making any improvements ... public notices imposing $500 to the trespassers Vol. 33, page 300 Nacogdoches Archives 4/3/1824. Sanedno sent to investigate all lands until a hearing on Quirk's claim could be established. Vol. 33, p. 292 2/17/1826, 23 American families ordered to be expelled who settled on land of Edmund Quirk."
(Source: Notes of Rev. George R. Crockett, Stephen F. Austin University Library, "Two Centuries in East Texas)
1826
Edmund Quirk was granted, on February 17, 1826, an order to expel 23 American families who had settled on his land, cutting down his trees and not leaving a field for his cattle. Senor Alcalde of Nacogdoches was told to remove the families, have them pay damages for losses Edmund suffered.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. XXVIII, p. 255
1829
April 11, 1829, sale of 1/2 mile of land by Edmund Quirk to John Boden.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. B. p. 27)
1830
"Jose Antonio Sepulnia petitioned for Citizen Raymond Quirk that my principal having obtained rights to a tract of land on the banks of the Ayish and in the locality called Tiquitone, said tract composed of 2 leagues in each direction by purchased from Don Pedro Purgas in 1801, Burgas having obtained same from Antonio Leal 1800 ... In virtue where of I pray that ... my aforesaid principal may not lose his rights he has to the land herein expressed, both by reason of his purchase and by reason of his very long imprisonment in one of the cells of the Alamo at Bexar in the year 1812, imperiled in the defense of the just cause of our mother Independence and of sacred Liberty, in addition to ... his excellency the Governor of the State having transmitted to the Political Chief of this Dept. a decree bearing the date 12/31/1825 and said Chief having transmitted to the Alcalde of this town 2/17/1825 for the survey of my aforementioned principal's land which order was executed by the Alcalde, Citizen Jose Maria Mora, in the year 1828 with citizen Santiago (Jones) Gaines as Surveyor..."
(Source: San Augustine County, Texas Deed Records, Volume D, P. 249, March 16, 1830)
1832-33
Founding of San Augustine, Texas: "In late 1832 local residents held mass meeting to decide where town should be situated and chose 15 men to make selection...The chosen site was at the northern crossing of Ayish Bayou on land owned by Edmund Quirk, part of a 4 league grant he had bought in 1801 from early Spanish settlers. The authorities in San Antonia approved Quirk purchase in 1828. [See Crocket 2 Centuries, pp. 61-62, 102-104]"
(Source: "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" by Margaret S. Henson and D. Parmelee, p. 59, published 1993)
In 1833 when the citizens of Ayish Bayou decided to build a town - San Augustine - on the old Dolores Mission site, Chichester Chaplain , son-in-law of Haden Edwards, said Edmund Sr. was at first unwilling to sell since he intended the mission site for his son Edmund Jr.
(Source: Crocketts Notes, C-Folder, Stephen F. Austin Univ. Library)
"The town (San Augustine) was founded on parts of four leagues granted by the Spanish government to Edmund Quirk in 1800. The title papers of Edmund Quirk are on display here today, and it was his son-in-law who in 1833 sold a section of the original grant to Thomas S. McFarland, as representative of a committee of Anglo-American settlers, for the original San Augustine townsite."
(Source: Southwest Historical Quarterly, Texas Collection, Vol. 69, p. 234-35)
"St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: Power of attorney, Sept. 23, 1833 by Edmund Quirk in favor of Thomas Quirk (his son) in which he declared that he was one of the legal heirs of the late Major Thomas Quirk who died near Lexington Kentucky. (This proves that relationship)
(Source: Vol H. p. 272 of Conveyance Records in Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.)
1834
"Edward Quirk and son Oct. 30, 1834 (1 league from Power and Hewetson in Bexar County (he apparently used his Irish for later grant and used his name Edward)
(Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203)
1829-36 Census of Texas, San Augustine lists: Quirk, Edward, age 77, farmer (Source: First Census of Texas, 1829-36)
1836
Edmund Quirk Sr. died in 1836 in San Augustine and his estate was administered by his son-in- law Raymond Dailey...
"the old man was certainly a sturdy oak fighting for the U.S. in the Revolution, moving west to Kentucky (whick was part of Virginia before it became a state in 1792, which is why his children born in the early 1790's said they were born in Virginia. His mother was in Kentucky and his brother and two sisters, then he was in Louisiana pioneering, probably in that no man's land fighting for Independence from Spain, refugeeing back to Louisiana and then back to Texas to protect his lands when Mexico won its Independence and staying there alone (according to census age 77) to maintain his claim."
(Source: Handwritten notes, compiler unknown, files of Mamie Bavouset)
1838
Headright Certificate No. 228 for one league and one labor of land issued in the name of Edmund Quirk, deceased, by the Board of Land Commissioners for San Augustine County. This certificate application states that he came to Texas in 1834.
Census Records: 1773-1849 Nacogdoches
1. 1799 Edmund Quirk, Sr. in Texas with his wife Maria Anna Alsop
William Dill and wife Marguerite Quirk
2. 1801 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
3. 1804 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
4. 1805 Edmund Quirk Sr.
5. 1806 Edmund Quirk Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
6. 1809 Edmund Quirk, Jr., son of Edmund Quirk Sr.
William Quirk, born about 1780 in Natchez in Texas since 1801
7. 1824 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and brother Henry Quirk Neutral Land Claims
8. 1831 Henry Quirk, born about 1815 Also 1832,33,34)
Jose De Los Reyes Quirk, born 1812, Also 1832, 34
(Source: Nacogdoches, Gateway to Texas, A Biographical Directory, 1773-1849, p. 43, 121
Notes for Maria Anna Alsop:
MARIA ANNA ALSOP - b. unknown
1809 Census of Nacogdoches lists
Edmund Quirk, born Virginia, age 22, single, farmer, came to Nacogdoches in 1800 from Virginia Anna Alsop Quirk, mother, born Virginia, age 50, came to Nacogdoches from Virginia in 1800
Edmund Quirk, absent
Anna Quirk, daughter, born Virginia, age 15
"Goods that they possess and with what permission they have them: A log house and fenced field, on land of one league in each direction, had from Don Pedro Buigas in sale authorized by Lt. Don Miguel Musquiz. He has 15 cattle, 4 horses, 2 hogs."
(Source: Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. II, p. 31)
Notes for Raymond Dailey:
RAYMOND DAILEY - b. October 1796
ANNE EULALIA QUIRK DAILEY - b. February 8, 1790
--Lattney Parrott, , Raymond Daley and Louis Ayers served under the Frenchman Jean LaFitte on Galveston Island. Lafitte's men, along with Jim Bowie were slave traders. They would bring slaves up from Galveston and take them across the state line into Louisiana. At that time laws had been passed making it illegal to import slaves into the Unites States. When Lafitte went with most of his men to New Orleans and joined Jackson's army, Parrott, Daley and Ayers migrated to old Bevilport in Jasper County where there was a temporary settlement near the mouth of the Neches River. They then moved to Fort Teran, then to Towsend Bluff on the Angelina River and then to San Augustine or Ayish Bayou settlement. Parrott, Daley and Ayers married daughters of Edmund Quirk and settled on Ayish Bayou. Shortly thereafter, Parrott sold his land and moved.
--Dailey had part of the Quirk land east of the Carrizzo and lived on the tract between the bridge and the Jack Rohrer tract. He was friendly with the Martin Loggins family, also living in that area. Following a dispute with Preston Loggins, Daily killed Preston. When Daily was out on his gallery one morning about dawn, he was killed by Cade Loggins. The Loggins family then moved down on the Chinquapin.
(Source: "Two Centuries in East Texas" by George Crockett")
Father: John Myall QUIRK b: in Philadelphia, Penn
Mother: Rebecca QUIRK
Marriage 1 Maria Anna ALSOP b: 1762 in Pennsylvania
Children
William QUIRK b: 1780 in Natchez, Miss.
Marie (Martha) QUIRK b: 1785 in Kentucky
Edmund QUIRK b: 24 JUN 1789 in Virginia (later a part of Kentucky)
Anna Eulalia QUIRK b: 8 FEB 1790 in Land of Choctaws (now Natchitoches, La.)
Thomas QUIRK b: 21 APR 1781 in Harrodsburg Station, Kentucky
It is unknown at this time where he is buried.
1775 - American Revolution
John and his sons Edmund (Edward) and Thomas are listed as having served in the Revolutionary War.
--Edward Quirk, Index of Revolutionary Records in Virginia State Archives.
(Source: Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution by Gwthman, p. 645)
--Thomas Quirk is listed with a list of officers and men from Virginia who served on the continental line under Commander George Washington. He is listed as a Subaltern. (Source: Virginia Military Records, p. 415, 418)
Edward (Edmond) Quirk is listed as fighting in the American Revolution.
(Source: "Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution 1775-63" by John H. Givathmey, Richmond Va. 1938, p. 645 and Index of the Revolution Records in the Virginia State Archives compiled by Dr. H. J. Eckenrode, 1912, 1914; "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution Vol.
1, page 363.)
1799
Edward (Edmund Sr.) claimed a preemption of 400 acres of land lying on Quirks Creek or Quirks Run in Boyle County, joining the lands of Samuel Kirkham. He settled in 1779, and satisfactory proof being made to the Court, they were of the opinion that Quirk has right to the 400 acres.
(Source: Certificate Book of the Virginia Land Commission 1779-1780, p. 61)
1783
In August of 1783, Edward Quirk was listed residing in Lincoln County, Kentucky. (Source: Kentucky Genealogist Vol 11, No 1, 1969)
Edmund Quirk is listed as being sued several times in Kentucky, and in one case he was ordered to pay 96 pounds. He also served on a jury in Kentucky.(Source: Kentucky Genealogist, Vol 7, No. 4, p. 137, 141)
1792
Anne Eulalia Querk , daughter of Edmond and Anne Alsup, born in nation of the "Jactas:(Choctaws). (Source: Natchitoches by Mills. Abstracts of Catholic Church Registers of French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste Des Natchitoches in Louisana. 1729-1803, Vol. II. Cane River Creole Series, Polyanthos 1977, p. 262)
1796)
Anne Eulalia Querk, January 3, 1796, baptism of Anne Eulalia, aged four years, daughter of Edmond Querk and Anne Olsup, now living at this post. Godparents: Placide Bosquet and Eulalie Bosquet.
Source: Natchitoches by Mills - full reference in 1792 entry for Anne.)
1799-1800
"Edmund Quirk, Sr., came from Virginia to Louisiana and into Texas first in 1792. He lived until sometime close the the Battle of San Jacinto and died either in Nacogdoches or San Augustine. (Source: Notes of Rev. Anton J. Frank)
He married Maria Anna Alsop and they migrated to Texas, settling on land on Bayou La Nana -eight miles east of Sabine River; land settled in 1819; killed by John Bodine in 1835 in San Augustine; Census Records 1799, 1801, 1804, 1824 Neutral Land Claims." (Source: A Biographical Directory 1773-1849)
Spanish established in east Texas the mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores in 1716, on Ayish Bayou but abandoned it in 1773. In 1794 Antonio Leal and his wife settled in the old mission site. Leal and his business partner Philip Nolan captured and sold wild horses. Nolan was killed by the Spanish and Leal and his wife were deported to Bexar. To pay legal fees, Leal's family sold the land to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Magazine Texas Co-Op Power, page 8-14, date not noted)
1799 Census of Nacogdoches, December 31
Mr. Quirk, American, married , native of Philadelphia, age 45, occupation fieldman Maria, his wife, native of America
3 sons ages 14, 10, 6 (Source: "Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. I, p. 318-319, G976.4)
Edmund Quirk, February 19, 1800 - was granted 4 leagues from the Spanish government by Commissioner Zejeda in San Augustine County. (Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 69, p. 236)
February 19, 1800 The Teguitana grant was made by Lieut. del Moral to Antonio Leal. Sold by Leal to Pedro Benigas, and then sold to Edmund Quirk. In his petition for title, the property was described as 4 leagues, including buildings, farms, fields, livestock, farming implements.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, by Blake, Vol. B. p. 12-14.)
"Quirk purchased 4 leagues of land buying both sides of Ayish Bayou (where town of San Augustine now stands). Land originally granted to Antonio Leal by Capt. Antonio Gil Ybarbo founder of Nacogdoches.(Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G. R. Crockett, at the S. F. Austin University Library.)
1801
"Number of foreigners in the Texas Frontier 1801 Census of Nacogdoches -- Pueblo of Nacogdoches - history of the foreigners in the pueblo and its entire jurisdiction with a statement of names, nationalities, conditions ages, time of residence and occupation. REIMUNDO QUERQUE, (also given in Spanish as Raymundo Kuerque) - American, native of Virginia, married, 45 years of age, residence 4 years, farmer. (By this it would seem that Edmond [Edmund] Quirk was born in1756 - which would tally with the 1834 census of San Augustine giving his birth as 1757). From this he was in Texas as early as 1797. Edmund Quirk, Sr., an American Revolutionary soldier, who was born in Pennsylvania, served in the War from Virginia and who came first to Louisiana and then to Texas in 1792. Quirk had a plantation on the Ayish Bayou in East Texas, worked by slaves, and once owned the site of the old mission at San Augustine, Tex. He was a prisoner in the Alamo after being captured by the Mexicans as a member of the Magee-Guiterrez Expedition but escaped. Quirk is featured in a moving exhibit on the bicentennial prepared by scholars at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio, a part of the University of Texas system. He will also be listed on a large bronze plaque to be placed in the Capitol at Austin on or before July 4 of this year. This plaque is sponsored by the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution and lists 40 soldiers of the American Revolution who came to Texas, lived and died in Texas. Edmund Quirk Sr. died in1836 in San Augustine and is buried there.
(Source: newspaper article, 1976, paper and date not noted, "Southwest Historical Quarterly,
Notes and Documents, Vol. 66, p. 476-77)
1802
Case over horse Edmund sold to Christian Hesser that was claimed by Dennis Linman. (Source: Bexar Archives: A Name Guide, p. 544)
1803
Finding that land he had purchased from Antonio Leal was not suitable for summer pasture for his herd of cattle, Edmund Quirk petitioned Lieutenant Governor Miguel Musquiz for a grant of land at "Arroyo de Dragoon, ... western part of Sabine River, 3 leagues from its banks ... one league in each principal direction, in such a manner to form a perfect square, which fronts are two leagues in length and the said plain may be the center of said square. .. in this space of land, I being able to have sufficient summer pasture for my present cattle and those that will be reared, ... I beg of you that you grant me this favor which I hope to deserve of the equity of your honor. Nacogdoches, May 12, 1803, Edmund Quirk" This petition was passed to Don de la Bega to investigate if the land was vacant, and if so to grant it to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol. 4, p. 200-201, University of Texas Archives, Austin)
1807
Edmund Quirk made another application for confirmation of title of ownership for his land on the Sabine River near Nacogdoches. (Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G.L Crockett, take at S.F. Austin University Library)
Edmund Quirk's petition for title was granted February 21, 1807 by Don Franco Viena, Adjutant Inspector of Nacogdoches.(Source: Bexar Archives by Blake ,Vol. B. p. 16)
1808
Case against Edmund Quirk for contraband of horses. His wife petitions for return of confiscated stock.
Source: (Bexar Archives, 1717-1836, A Name Guide, p. 545.)
1809
"Although he is called Edmond Quirk is almost universally in Texas records and usually in in Nacogdoches Records. He is also referred to as Edward from time to time."
(Source: First Census of Texas 1829-36 p. 4, "Census of San Augustine District or Municipality 1834-36") "The Texas Census of 1809 between Nacogdoches and Sabine River showed Edmund Quirk absent, Anna Alsop (his wife) age 50 (born 1759) Edmond Jr. age 22 (born 1787) Anna Quirk, age 15 (born 1794) all born in Virginia."
(Source: Texas Census of 1809)
"Life and Activities of Anna Alsop, August 16, 1809 -- Sworn statement which I, Anna Alsop, make of my nativity and the rest that I shall express in the following manner: Anna Alsop, of the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion, a native of Pennsylvania, of the United States of American,and having with her little ones gone to Kentucky, in this place she married Edmund Quirk, a native of the Province of Virginia of the same States, with whom he came to the province of Louisiana,and they came to this Post of Nacogdoches in the year 1800, where they established themselves ona ranch, from which her said husband separated himself, a fugitive, and she who explains maintains herself with her labor; she has one unmarried son and a daughter; and not having documents to add to this her statement, she makes a sign of a cross, because of not knowing how to write; Don Jose de la Bega and Don Manuel Bustamante who signed, being witnesses in Nacogdoches, August 16, 1809.
Witness: Sign of a Cross of
Jose Luis de la Bega X
Anna Alsop
Witness: Manuel Bustamante"
(Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol 6, p. 406, University of Texas Archives, Austin, Texas,
research by Mamie Bavouset)
1810
In the report of Don Jose Maria Guadiana, Commandant of the village of Nacogdoches, on foreigners living there and their conduct, he states that Edmund Quirk, Sr., (father-in-law of resident Anthony Parrot) "is a fugitive from here and makes his residence in the Province of Louisiana, and also between the Arroyo Hondo and the Sabine River, united with other foreigners. On account of the short distance that intervenes from said Sabine to Ays Bayou, the
communication is not difficult, which the said Quirk may be able to have with his son-in-law and family."
(Source: Bexar Archives, by Blake, Vol. 7, p.111-112)
Henry Quirk, the brother of Edmund, is tried and confesses to conducting illegal horse trading between the Spanish Texas and Louisiana. Henry states that he had been living on the ranch of his brother Edmund since September 1807 and that he went from this ranch to Natchez, then to
Natchitoches buying and selling horses. Henry states he engaged in this illegal business to make money to send to his poor mother living in Kentucky.1811
"Letter from John Sibley, Indian Agent Natchitoches, Louisiana to Secretary Flores 'On the 5th ____ Mr. Edmund Quirk arrived here from Nacogdoches and gave me at my own house the following information ... this day a Mr. Chilens confirmed the account of a general revolution in the Kingdom of Mexico."
(Source: "Texas Letters in 1811" published by the Yonagua Society, San Antonio, 1941, Vol. 6, page 160.)
1812
Edmund Quirk takes part in Gutierrez-Magee Expedition against the Spanish. He was captured at the battle of Medina, was jailed in the Alamo and released.
(Source:Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 66, pp. 476-77)
Later he joined the Major Guiterrez Expedition and marched to San Antonio where after initial success the expedition became disorganized and later under General Toledo was beaten in the Battle of Medina. Quirk was taken prisoner and for several months lay prisoner in one of the cells of the Alamo Mission. He escaped and was next in the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana with his sons Edmund Jr. and William.
1814-1819
In the meantime, the Spanish cleared out all foreigners from the Nacogdoches San Augustine - Sabine area and left this country empty. A few years later inhabitants started coming back and some joined the Long Expedition of 1819. (As late as 1818 Edmond was still in Natchitoches from records in San Augustine County Courthouse. (General Index to Deeds No. 1, Book B P. 88, Book F, pp. 123-24 which copies of records in Natchitoches Louisiana 1818. (He was there in April 17, 1814, according to the Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. III, page 230. 'Claims in the Western District of Louisiana where he had land on Dieu Domine stream also Bayou La Nana. His brother Henry had received land on Bayou Pierre April 26, 1790 from Spanish Title, page 623, (Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. I, printed Washington D.C. by Gales and Seaton in 1832.) So did Chireno. All three went back and forth between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches.
1818
Edmund Quirk, Sr. conveys portions of his land on Ayish Bayou to his three sons-in-law . Raymond Daley, Letney Parrott and John Ayres all served with the pirate Lafitte at the battle of New Orleans and in Galveston. When Lafitte left Galveston, they remained in Texas. Parrott married Edmond Sr.'s daughter Martha. Daley married his daughter Ann. (Daley was her second husband. Louis Ayres married a daughter or granddaughter.
Lafitte's records list: Raymon Daley 1818 apprentice seametre; Latney Parrott 1904-1819 - Gardien de Cassin; Louis de Ayres - 1817 - carpenter.
(Source: Notes for Two Centuries of East Texas" by G.L. Crockett, done at S.F. Austin University Library)
1821
Mexico expels Spanish and Mexican Government now controls Texas, including Nacogdoches where Edmund Quirk still claimed land.
1824
Edmund Quirk was back in he Nacogdoches San Augustine area by 1824 (and maybe earlier) because of the change of government, to keep his lands -- he had stayed out of Texas after he escaped from the Alamo in 1812, as long as Spain was in control, but after 1821-22 Mexico was in control, he came back.
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol XXXIII page 296 shows petition of 35 Anglo settlers on the Attoya and Sabine on February 16, 1824 to Don Jose Atonio Saucedo, Political Chief of the Province of Texas that 'Edmond Quirk claims under an old Spanish Grant to have a right to 12 sq. miles of land --- these are the best between Nacogdoches and the Sabine River --- over 20 American families have settled on it ... But the Sr. Quirk is employing every possible means for intimidating and molesting these settlers. He personally went to their houses (remember he was at least 66 at this time) prohibiting them to cut timber, clearing lands or making any improvements ... public notices imposing $500 to the trespassers Vol. 33, page 300 Nacogdoches Archives 4/3/1824. Sanedno sent to investigate all lands until a hearing on Quirk's claim could be established. Vol. 33, p. 292 2/17/1826, 23 American families ordered to be expelled who settled on land of Edmund Quirk."
(Source: Notes of Rev. George R. Crockett, Stephen F. Austin University Library, "Two Centuries in East Texas)
1826
Edmund Quirk was granted, on February 17, 1826, an order to expel 23 American families who had settled on his land, cutting down his trees and not leaving a field for his cattle. Senor Alcalde of Nacogdoches was told to remove the families, have them pay damages for losses Edmund suffered.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. XXVIII, p. 255
1829
April 11, 1829, sale of 1/2 mile of land by Edmund Quirk to John Boden.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. B. p. 27)
1830
"Jose Antonio Sepulnia petitioned for Citizen Raymond Quirk that my principal having obtained rights to a tract of land on the banks of the Ayish and in the locality called Tiquitone, said tract composed of 2 leagues in each direction by purchased from Don Pedro Purgas in 1801, Burgas having obtained same from Antonio Leal 1800 ... In virtue where of I pray that ... my aforesaid principal may not lose his rights he has to the land herein expressed, both by reason of his purchase and by reason of his very long imprisonment in one of the cells of the Alamo at Bexar in the year 1812, imperiled in the defense of the just cause of our mother Independence and of sacred Liberty, in addition to ... his excellency the Governor of the State having transmitted to the Political Chief of this Dept. a decree bearing the date 12/31/1825 and said Chief having transmitted to the Alcalde of this town 2/17/1825 for the survey of my aforementioned principal's land which order was executed by the Alcalde, Citizen Jose Maria Mora, in the year 1828 with citizen Santiago (Jones) Gaines as Surveyor..."
(Source: San Augustine County, Texas Deed Records, Volume D, P. 249, March 16, 1830)
1832-33
Founding of San Augustine, Texas: "In late 1832 local residents held mass meeting to decide where town should be situated and chose 15 men to make selection...The chosen site was at the northern crossing of Ayish Bayou on land owned by Edmund Quirk, part of a 4 league grant he had bought in 1801 from early Spanish settlers. The authorities in San Antonia approved Quirk purchase in 1828. [See Crocket 2 Centuries, pp. 61-62, 102-104]"
(Source: "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" by Margaret S. Henson and D. Parmelee, p. 59, published 1993)
In 1833 when the citizens of Ayish Bayou decided to build a town - San Augustine - on the old Dolores Mission site, Chichester Chaplain , son-in-law of Haden Edwards, said Edmund Sr. was at first unwilling to sell since he intended the mission site for his son Edmund Jr.
(Source: Crocketts Notes, C-Folder, Stephen F. Austin Univ. Library)
"The town (San Augustine) was founded on parts of four leagues granted by the Spanish government to Edmund Quirk in 1800. The title papers of Edmund Quirk are on display here today, and it was his son-in-law who in 1833 sold a section of the original grant to Thomas S. McFarland, as representative of a committee of Anglo-American settlers, for the original San Augustine townsite."
(Source: Southwest Historical Quarterly, Texas Collection, Vol. 69, p. 234-35)
"St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: Power of attorney, Sept. 23, 1833 by Edmund Quirk in favor of Thomas Quirk (his son) in which he declared that he was one of the legal heirs of the late Major Thomas Quirk who died near Lexington Kentucky. (This proves that relationship)
(Source: Vol H. p. 272 of Conveyance Records in Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.)
1834
"Edward Quirk and son Oct. 30, 1834 (1 league from Power and Hewetson in Bexar County (he apparently used his Irish for later grant and used his name Edward)
(Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203)
1829-36 Census of Texas, San Augustine lists: Quirk, Edward, age 77, farmer (Source: First Census of Texas, 1829-36)
1836
Edmund Quirk Sr. died in 1836 in San Augustine and his estate was administered by his son-in- law Raymond Dailey...
"the old man was certainly a sturdy oak fighting for the U.S. in the Revolution, moving west to Kentucky (whick was part of Virginia before it became a state in 1792, which is why his children born in the early 1790's said they were born in Virginia. His mother was in Kentucky and his brother and two sisters, then he was in Louisiana pioneering, probably in that no man's land fighting for Independence from Spain, refugeeing back to Louisiana and then back to Texas to protect his lands when Mexico won its Independence and staying there alone (according to census age 77) to maintain his claim."
(Source: Handwritten notes, compiler unknown, files of Mamie Bavouset)
1838
Headright Certificate No. 228 for one league and one labor of land issued in the name of Edmund Quirk, deceased, by the Board of Land Commissioners for San Augustine County. This certificate application states that he came to Texas in 1834.
Census Records: 1773-1849 Nacogdoches
1. 1799 Edmund Quirk, Sr. in Texas with his wife Maria Anna Alsop
William Dill and wife Marguerite Quirk
2. 1801 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
3. 1804 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
4. 1805 Edmund Quirk Sr.
5. 1806 Edmund Quirk Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
6. 1809 Edmund Quirk, Jr., son of Edmund Quirk Sr.
William Quirk, born about 1780 in Natchez in Texas since 1801
7. 1824 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and brother Henry Quirk Neutral Land Claims
8. 1831 Henry Quirk, born about 1815 Also 1832,33,34)
Jose De Los Reyes Quirk, born 1812, Also 1832, 34
(Source: Nacogdoches, Gateway to Texas, A Biographical Directory, 1773-1849, p. 43, 121
Notes for Maria Anna Alsop:
MARIA ANNA ALSOP - b. unknown
1809 Census of Nacogdoches lists
Edmund Quirk, born Virginia, age 22, single, farmer, came to Nacogdoches in 1800 from Virginia Anna Alsop Quirk, mother, born Virginia, age 50, came to Nacogdoches from Virginia in 1800
Edmund Quirk, absent
Anna Quirk, daughter, born Virginia, age 15
"Goods that they possess and with what permission they have them: A log house and fenced field, on land of one league in each direction, had from Don Pedro Buigas in sale authorized by Lt. Don Miguel Musquiz. He has 15 cattle, 4 horses, 2 hogs."
(Source: Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. II, p. 31)
Notes for Raymond Dailey:
RAYMOND DAILEY - b. October 1796
ANNE EULALIA QUIRK DAILEY - b. February 8, 1790
--Lattney Parrott, , Raymond Daley and Louis Ayers served under the Frenchman Jean LaFitte on Galveston Island. Lafitte's men, along with Jim Bowie were slave traders. They would bring slaves up from Galveston and take them across the state line into Louisiana. At that time laws had been passed making it illegal to import slaves into the Unites States. When Lafitte went with most of his men to New Orleans and joined Jackson's army, Parrott, Daley and Ayers migrated to old Bevilport in Jasper County where there was a temporary settlement near the mouth of the Neches River. They then moved to Fort Teran, then to Towsend Bluff on the Angelina River and then to San Augustine or Ayish Bayou settlement. Parrott, Daley and Ayers married daughters of Edmund Quirk and settled on Ayish Bayou. Shortly thereafter, Parrott sold his land and moved.
--Dailey had part of the Quirk land east of the Carrizzo and lived on the tract between the bridge and the Jack Rohrer tract. He was friendly with the Martin Loggins family, also living in that area. Following a dispute with Preston Loggins, Daily killed Preston. When Daily was out on his gallery one morning about dawn, he was killed by Cade Loggins. The Loggins family then moved down on the Chinquapin.
(Source: "Two Centuries in East Texas" by George Crockett")
Father: John Myall QUIRK b: in Philadelphia, Penn
Mother: Rebecca QUIRK
Marriage 1 Maria Anna ALSOP b: 1762 in Pennsylvania
Children
William QUIRK b: 1780 in Natchez, Miss.
Marie (Martha) QUIRK b: 1785 in Kentucky
Edmund QUIRK b: 24 JUN 1789 in Virginia (later a part of Kentucky)
Anna Eulalia QUIRK b: 8 FEB 1790 in Land of Choctaws (now Natchitoches, La.)
Thomas QUIRK b: 21 APR 1781 in Harrodsburg Station, Kentucky
It is unknown at this time where he is buried.
"Quirk, Edmund - b. 1759 Virginia, son of John and Rebecca Quirk. They resided in a part of Virginia that later became part of the newly formed state of Kentucky, resulting in confusion about birthplaces. In various records, Edmund is spelled Edmond or Edward. In most Texas records his name is Edmond or Edmund.
1775 - American Revolution
John and his sons Edmund (Edward) and Thomas are listed as having served in the Revolutionary War.
--Edward Quirk, Index of Revolutionary Records in Virginia State Archives.
(Source: Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution by Gwthman, p. 645)
--Thomas Quirk is listed with a list of officers and men from Virginia who served on the continental line under Commander George Washington. He is listed as a Subaltern. (Source: Virginia Military Records, p. 415, 418)
Edward (Edmond) Quirk is listed as fighting in the American Revolution.
(Source: "Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution 1775-63" by John H. Givathmey, Richmond Va. 1938, p. 645 and Index of the Revolution Records in the Virginia State Archives compiled by Dr. H. J. Eckenrode, 1912, 1914; "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution Vol.
1, page 363.)
1799
Edward (Edmund Sr.) claimed a preemption of 400 acres of land lying on Quirks Creek or Quirks Run in Boyle County, joining the lands of Samuel Kirkham. He settled in 1779, and satisfactory proof being made to the Court, they were of the opinion that Quirk has right to the 400 acres.
(Source: Certificate Book of the Virginia Land Commission 1779-1780, p. 61)
1783
In August of 1783, Edward Quirk was listed residing in Lincoln County, Kentucky. (Source: Kentucky Genealogist Vol 11, No 1, 1969)
Edmund Quirk is listed as being sued several times in Kentucky, and in one case he was ordered to pay 96 pounds. He also served on a jury in Kentucky.(Source: Kentucky Genealogist, Vol 7, No. 4, p. 137, 141)
1792
Anne Eulalia Querk , daughter of Edmond and Anne Alsup, born in nation of the "Jactas:(Choctaws). (Source: Natchitoches by Mills. Abstracts of Catholic Church Registers of French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste Des Natchitoches in Louisana. 1729-1803, Vol. II. Cane River Creole Series, Polyanthos 1977, p. 262)
1796)
Anne Eulalia Querk, January 3, 1796, baptism of Anne Eulalia, aged four years, daughter of Edmond Querk and Anne Olsup, now living at this post. Godparents: Placide Bosquet and Eulalie Bosquet.
Source: Natchitoches by Mills - full reference in 1792 entry for Anne.)
1799-1800
"Edmund Quirk, Sr., came from Virginia to Louisiana and into Texas first in 1792. He lived until sometime close the the Battle of San Jacinto and died either in Nacogdoches or San Augustine. (Source: Notes of Rev. Anton J. Frank)
He married Maria Anna Alsop and they migrated to Texas, settling on land on Bayou La Nana -eight miles east of Sabine River; land settled in 1819; killed by John Bodine in 1835 in San Augustine; Census Records 1799, 1801, 1804, 1824 Neutral Land Claims." (Source: A Biographical Directory 1773-1849)
Spanish established in east Texas the mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores in 1716, on Ayish Bayou but abandoned it in 1773. In 1794 Antonio Leal and his wife settled in the old mission site. Leal and his business partner Philip Nolan captured and sold wild horses. Nolan was killed by the Spanish and Leal and his wife were deported to Bexar. To pay legal fees, Leal's family sold the land to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Magazine Texas Co-Op Power, page 8-14, date not noted)
1799 Census of Nacogdoches, December 31
Mr. Quirk, American, married , native of Philadelphia, age 45, occupation fieldman Maria, his wife, native of America
3 sons ages 14, 10, 6 (Source: "Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. I, p. 318-319, G976.4)
Edmund Quirk, February 19, 1800 - was granted 4 leagues from the Spanish government by Commissioner Zejeda in San Augustine County. (Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 69, p. 236)
February 19, 1800 The Teguitana grant was made by Lieut. del Moral to Antonio Leal. Sold by Leal to Pedro Benigas, and then sold to Edmund Quirk. In his petition for title, the property was described as 4 leagues, including buildings, farms, fields, livestock, farming implements.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, by Blake, Vol. B. p. 12-14.)
"Quirk purchased 4 leagues of land buying both sides of Ayish Bayou (where town of San Augustine now stands). Land originally granted to Antonio Leal by Capt. Antonio Gil Ybarbo founder of Nacogdoches.(Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G. R. Crockett, at the S. F. Austin University Library.)
1801
"Number of foreigners in the Texas Frontier 1801 Census of Nacogdoches -- Pueblo of Nacogdoches - history of the foreigners in the pueblo and its entire jurisdiction with a statement of names, nationalities, conditions ages, time of residence and occupation. REIMUNDO QUERQUE, (also given in Spanish as Raymundo Kuerque) - American, native of Virginia, married, 45 years of age, residence 4 years, farmer. (By this it would seem that Edmond [Edmund] Quirk was born in1756 - which would tally with the 1834 census of San Augustine giving his birth as 1757). From this he was in Texas as early as 1797. Edmund Quirk, Sr., an American Revolutionary soldier, who was born in Pennsylvania, served in the War from Virginia and who came first to Louisiana and then to Texas in 1792. Quirk had a plantation on the Ayish Bayou in East Texas, worked by slaves, and once owned the site of the old mission at San Augustine, Tex. He was a prisoner in the Alamo after being captured by the Mexicans as a member of the Magee-Guiterrez Expedition but escaped. Quirk is featured in a moving exhibit on the bicentennial prepared by scholars at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio, a part of the University of Texas system. He will also be listed on a large bronze plaque to be placed in the Capitol at Austin on or before July 4 of this year. This plaque is sponsored by the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution and lists 40 soldiers of the American Revolution who came to Texas, lived and died in Texas. Edmund Quirk Sr. died in1836 in San Augustine and is buried there.
(Source: newspaper article, 1976, paper and date not noted, "Southwest Historical Quarterly,
Notes and Documents, Vol. 66, p. 476-77)
1802
Case over horse Edmund sold to Christian Hesser that was claimed by Dennis Linman. (Source: Bexar Archives: A Name Guide, p. 544)
1803
Finding that land he had purchased from Antonio Leal was not suitable for summer pasture for his herd of cattle, Edmund Quirk petitioned Lieutenant Governor Miguel Musquiz for a grant of land at "Arroyo de Dragoon, ... western part of Sabine River, 3 leagues from its banks ... one league in each principal direction, in such a manner to form a perfect square, which fronts are two leagues in length and the said plain may be the center of said square. .. in this space of land, I being able to have sufficient summer pasture for my present cattle and those that will be reared, ... I beg of you that you grant me this favor which I hope to deserve of the equity of your honor. Nacogdoches, May 12, 1803, Edmund Quirk" This petition was passed to Don de la Bega to investigate if the land was vacant, and if so to grant it to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol. 4, p. 200-201, University of Texas Archives, Austin)
1807
Edmund Quirk made another application for confirmation of title of ownership for his land on the Sabine River near Nacogdoches. (Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G.L Crockett, take at S.F. Austin University Library)
Edmund Quirk's petition for title was granted February 21, 1807 by Don Franco Viena, Adjutant Inspector of Nacogdoches.(Source: Bexar Archives by Blake ,Vol. B. p. 16)
1808
Case against Edmund Quirk for contraband of horses. His wife petitions for return of confiscated stock.
Source: (Bexar Archives, 1717-1836, A Name Guide, p. 545.)
1809
"Although he is called Edmond Quirk is almost universally in Texas records and usually in in Nacogdoches Records. He is also referred to as Edward from time to time."
(Source: First Census of Texas 1829-36 p. 4, "Census of San Augustine District or Municipality 1834-36") "The Texas Census of 1809 between Nacogdoches and Sabine River showed Edmund Quirk absent, Anna Alsop (his wife) age 50 (born 1759) Edmond Jr. age 22 (born 1787) Anna Quirk, age 15 (born 1794) all born in Virginia."
(Source: Texas Census of 1809)
"Life and Activities of Anna Alsop, August 16, 1809 -- Sworn statement which I, Anna Alsop, make of my nativity and the rest that I shall express in the following manner: Anna Alsop, of the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion, a native of Pennsylvania, of the United States of American,and having with her little ones gone to Kentucky, in this place she married Edmund Quirk, a native of the Province of Virginia of the same States, with whom he came to the province of Louisiana,and they came to this Post of Nacogdoches in the year 1800, where they established themselves ona ranch, from which her said husband separated himself, a fugitive, and she who explains maintains herself with her labor; she has one unmarried son and a daughter; and not having documents to add to this her statement, she makes a sign of a cross, because of not knowing how to write; Don Jose de la Bega and Don Manuel Bustamante who signed, being witnesses in Nacogdoches, August 16, 1809.
Witness: Sign of a Cross of
Jose Luis de la Bega X
Anna Alsop
Witness: Manuel Bustamante"
(Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol 6, p. 406, University of Texas Archives, Austin, Texas,
research by Mamie Bavouset)
1810
In the report of Don Jose Maria Guadiana, Commandant of the village of Nacogdoches, on foreigners living there and their conduct, he states that Edmund Quirk, Sr., (father-in-law of resident Anthony Parrot) "is a fugitive from here and makes his residence in the Province of Louisiana, and also between the Arroyo Hondo and the Sabine River, united with other foreigners. On account of the short distance that intervenes from said Sabine to Ays Bayou, the
communication is not difficult, which the said Quirk may be able to have with his son-in-law and family."
(Source: Bexar Archives, by Blake, Vol. 7, p.111-112)
Henry Quirk, the brother of Edmund, is tried and confesses to conducting illegal horse trading between the Spanish Texas and Louisiana. Henry states that he had been living on the ranch of his brother Edmund since September 1807 and that he went from this ranch to Natchez, then to
Natchitoches buying and selling horses. Henry states he engaged in this illegal business to make money to send to his poor mother living in Kentucky.1811
"Letter from John Sibley, Indian Agent Natchitoches, Louisiana to Secretary Flores 'On the 5th ____ Mr. Edmund Quirk arrived here from Nacogdoches and gave me at my own house the following information ... this day a Mr. Chilens confirmed the account of a general revolution in the Kingdom of Mexico."
(Source: "Texas Letters in 1811" published by the Yonagua Society, San Antonio, 1941, Vol. 6, page 160.)
1812
Edmund Quirk takes part in Gutierrez-Magee Expedition against the Spanish. He was captured at the battle of Medina, was jailed in the Alamo and released.
(Source:Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 66, pp. 476-77)
Later he joined the Major Guiterrez Expedition and marched to San Antonio where after initial success the expedition became disorganized and later under General Toledo was beaten in the Battle of Medina. Quirk was taken prisoner and for several months lay prisoner in one of the cells of the Alamo Mission. He escaped and was next in the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana with his sons Edmund Jr. and William.
1814-1819
In the meantime, the Spanish cleared out all foreigners from the Nacogdoches San Augustine - Sabine area and left this country empty. A few years later inhabitants started coming back and some joined the Long Expedition of 1819. (As late as 1818 Edmond was still in Natchitoches from records in San Augustine County Courthouse. (General Index to Deeds No. 1, Book B P. 88, Book F, pp. 123-24 which copies of records in Natchitoches Louisiana 1818. (He was there in April 17, 1814, according to the Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. III, page 230. 'Claims in the Western District of Louisiana where he had land on Dieu Domine stream also Bayou La Nana. His brother Henry had received land on Bayou Pierre April 26, 1790 from Spanish Title, page 623, (Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. I, printed Washington D.C. by Gales and Seaton in 1832.) So did Chireno. All three went back and forth between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches.
1818
Edmund Quirk, Sr. conveys portions of his land on Ayish Bayou to his three sons-in-law . Raymond Daley, Letney Parrott and John Ayres all served with the pirate Lafitte at the battle of New Orleans and in Galveston. When Lafitte left Galveston, they remained in Texas. Parrott married Edmond Sr.'s daughter Martha. Daley married his daughter Ann. (Daley was her second husband. Louis Ayres married a daughter or granddaughter.
Lafitte's records list: Raymon Daley 1818 apprentice seametre; Latney Parrott 1904-1819 - Gardien de Cassin; Louis de Ayres - 1817 - carpenter.
(Source: Notes for Two Centuries of East Texas" by G.L. Crockett, done at S.F. Austin University Library)
1821
Mexico expels Spanish and Mexican Government now controls Texas, including Nacogdoches where Edmund Quirk still claimed land.
1824
Edmund Quirk was back in he Nacogdoches San Augustine area by 1824 (and maybe earlier) because of the change of government, to keep his lands -- he had stayed out of Texas after he escaped from the Alamo in 1812, as long as Spain was in control, but after 1821-22 Mexico was in control, he came back.
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol XXXIII page 296 shows petition of 35 Anglo settlers on the Attoya and Sabine on February 16, 1824 to Don Jose Atonio Saucedo, Political Chief of the Province of Texas that 'Edmond Quirk claims under an old Spanish Grant to have a right to 12 sq. miles of land --- these are the best between Nacogdoches and the Sabine River --- over 20 American families have settled on it ... But the Sr. Quirk is employing every possible means for intimidating and molesting these settlers. He personally went to their houses (remember he was at least 66 at this time) prohibiting them to cut timber, clearing lands or making any improvements ... public notices imposing $500 to the trespassers Vol. 33, page 300 Nacogdoches Archives 4/3/1824. Sanedno sent to investigate all lands until a hearing on Quirk's claim could be established. Vol. 33, p. 292 2/17/1826, 23 American families ordered to be expelled who settled on land of Edmund Quirk."
(Source: Notes of Rev. George R. Crockett, Stephen F. Austin University Library, "Two Centuries in East Texas)
1826
Edmund Quirk was granted, on February 17, 1826, an order to expel 23 American families who had settled on his land, cutting down his trees and not leaving a field for his cattle. Senor Alcalde of Nacogdoches was told to remove the families, have them pay damages for losses Edmund suffered.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. XXVIII, p. 255
1829
April 11, 1829, sale of 1/2 mile of land by Edmund Quirk to John Boden.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. B. p. 27)
1830
"Jose Antonio Sepulnia petitioned for Citizen Raymond Quirk that my principal having obtained rights to a tract of land on the banks of the Ayish and in the locality called Tiquitone, said tract composed of 2 leagues in each direction by purchased from Don Pedro Purgas in 1801, Burgas having obtained same from Antonio Leal 1800 ... In virtue where of I pray that ... my aforesaid principal may not lose his rights he has to the land herein expressed, both by reason of his purchase and by reason of his very long imprisonment in one of the cells of the Alamo at Bexar in the year 1812, imperiled in the defense of the just cause of our mother Independence and of sacred Liberty, in addition to ... his excellency the Governor of the State having transmitted to the Political Chief of this Dept. a decree bearing the date 12/31/1825 and said Chief having transmitted to the Alcalde of this town 2/17/1825 for the survey of my aforementioned principal's land which order was executed by the Alcalde, Citizen Jose Maria Mora, in the year 1828 with citizen Santiago (Jones) Gaines as Surveyor..."
(Source: San Augustine County, Texas Deed Records, Volume D, P. 249, March 16, 1830)
1832-33
Founding of San Augustine, Texas: "In late 1832 local residents held mass meeting to decide where town should be situated and chose 15 men to make selection...The chosen site was at the northern crossing of Ayish Bayou on land owned by Edmund Quirk, part of a 4 league grant he had bought in 1801 from early Spanish settlers. The authorities in San Antonia approved Quirk purchase in 1828. [See Crocket 2 Centuries, pp. 61-62, 102-104]"
(Source: "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" by Margaret S. Henson and D. Parmelee, p. 59, published 1993)
In 1833 when the citizens of Ayish Bayou decided to build a town - San Augustine - on the old Dolores Mission site, Chichester Chaplain , son-in-law of Haden Edwards, said Edmund Sr. was at first unwilling to sell since he intended the mission site for his son Edmund Jr.
(Source: Crocketts Notes, C-Folder, Stephen F. Austin Univ. Library)
"The town (San Augustine) was founded on parts of four leagues granted by the Spanish government to Edmund Quirk in 1800. The title papers of Edmund Quirk are on display here today, and it was his son-in-law who in 1833 sold a section of the original grant to Thomas S. McFarland, as representative of a committee of Anglo-American settlers, for the original San Augustine townsite."
(Source: Southwest Historical Quarterly, Texas Collection, Vol. 69, p. 234-35)
"St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: Power of attorney, Sept. 23, 1833 by Edmund Quirk in favor of Thomas Quirk (his son) in which he declared that he was one of the legal heirs of the late Major Thomas Quirk who died near Lexington Kentucky. (This proves that relationship)
(Source: Vol H. p. 272 of Conveyance Records in Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.)
1834
"Edward Quirk and son Oct. 30, 1834 (1 league from Power and Hewetson in Bexar County (he apparently used his Irish for later grant and used his name Edward)
(Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203)
1829-36 Census of Texas, San Augustine lists: Quirk, Edward, age 77, farmer (Source: First Census of Texas, 1829-36)
1836
Edmund Quirk Sr. died in 1836 in San Augustine and his estate was administered by his son-in- law Raymond Dailey...
"the old man was certainly a sturdy oak fighting for the U.S. in the Revolution, moving west to Kentucky (whick was part of Virginia before it became a state in 1792, which is why his children born in the early 1790's said they were born in Virginia. His mother was in Kentucky and his brother and two sisters, then he was in Louisiana pioneering, probably in that no man's land fighting for Independence from Spain, refugeeing back to Louisiana and then back to Texas to protect his lands when Mexico won its Independence and staying there alone (according to census age 77) to maintain his claim."
(Source: Handwritten notes, compiler unknown, files of Mamie Bavouset)
1838
Headright Certificate No. 228 for one league and one labor of land issued in the name of Edmund Quirk, deceased, by the Board of Land Commissioners for San Augustine County. This certificate application states that he came to Texas in 1834.
Census Records: 1773-1849 Nacogdoches
1. 1799 Edmund Quirk, Sr. in Texas with his wife Maria Anna Alsop
William Dill and wife Marguerite Quirk
2. 1801 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
3. 1804 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
4. 1805 Edmund Quirk Sr.
5. 1806 Edmund Quirk Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
6. 1809 Edmund Quirk, Jr., son of Edmund Quirk Sr.
William Quirk, born about 1780 in Natchez in Texas since 1801
7. 1824 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and brother Henry Quirk Neutral Land Claims
8. 1831 Henry Quirk, born about 1815 Also 1832,33,34)
Jose De Los Reyes Quirk, born 1812, Also 1832, 34
(Source: Nacogdoches, Gateway to Texas, A Biographical Directory, 1773-1849, p. 43, 121
Notes for Maria Anna Alsop:
MARIA ANNA ALSOP - b. unknown
1809 Census of Nacogdoches lists
Edmund Quirk, born Virginia, age 22, single, farmer, came to Nacogdoches in 1800 from Virginia Anna Alsop Quirk, mother, born Virginia, age 50, came to Nacogdoches from Virginia in 1800
Edmund Quirk, absent
Anna Quirk, daughter, born Virginia, age 15
"Goods that they possess and with what permission they have them: A log house and fenced field, on land of one league in each direction, had from Don Pedro Buigas in sale authorized by Lt. Don Miguel Musquiz. He has 15 cattle, 4 horses, 2 hogs."
(Source: Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. II, p. 31)
Notes for Raymond Dailey:
RAYMOND DAILEY - b. October 1796
ANNE EULALIA QUIRK DAILEY - b. February 8, 1790
--Lattney Parrott, , Raymond Daley and Louis Ayers served under the Frenchman Jean LaFitte on Galveston Island. Lafitte's men, along with Jim Bowie were slave traders. They would bring slaves up from Galveston and take them across the state line into Louisiana. At that time laws had been passed making it illegal to import slaves into the Unites States. When Lafitte went with most of his men to New Orleans and joined Jackson's army, Parrott, Daley and Ayers migrated to old Bevilport in Jasper County where there was a temporary settlement near the mouth of the Neches River. They then moved to Fort Teran, then to Towsend Bluff on the Angelina River and then to San Augustine or Ayish Bayou settlement. Parrott, Daley and Ayers married daughters of Edmund Quirk and settled on Ayish Bayou. Shortly thereafter, Parrott sold his land and moved.
--Dailey had part of the Quirk land east of the Carrizzo and lived on the tract between the bridge and the Jack Rohrer tract. He was friendly with the Martin Loggins family, also living in that area. Following a dispute with Preston Loggins, Daily killed Preston. When Daily was out on his gallery one morning about dawn, he was killed by Cade Loggins. The Loggins family then moved down on the Chinquapin.
(Source: "Two Centuries in East Texas" by George Crockett")
Father: John Myall QUIRK b: in Philadelphia, Penn
Mother: Rebecca QUIRK
Marriage 1 Maria Anna ALSOP b: 1762 in Pennsylvania
Children
William QUIRK b: 1780 in Natchez, Miss.
Marie (Martha) QUIRK b: 1785 in Kentucky
Edmund QUIRK b: 24 JUN 1789 in Virginia (later a part of Kentucky)
Anna Eulalia QUIRK b: 8 FEB 1790 in Land of Choctaws (now Natchitoches, La.)
Thomas QUIRK b: 21 APR 1781 in Harrodsburg Station, Kentucky
It is unknown at this time where he is buried.
1775 - American Revolution
John and his sons Edmund (Edward) and Thomas are listed as having served in the Revolutionary War.
--Edward Quirk, Index of Revolutionary Records in Virginia State Archives.
(Source: Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution by Gwthman, p. 645)
--Thomas Quirk is listed with a list of officers and men from Virginia who served on the continental line under Commander George Washington. He is listed as a Subaltern. (Source: Virginia Military Records, p. 415, 418)
Edward (Edmond) Quirk is listed as fighting in the American Revolution.
(Source: "Historical Register of Virginians in Revolution 1775-63" by John H. Givathmey, Richmond Va. 1938, p. 645 and Index of the Revolution Records in the Virginia State Archives compiled by Dr. H. J. Eckenrode, 1912, 1914; "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution Vol.
1, page 363.)
1799
Edward (Edmund Sr.) claimed a preemption of 400 acres of land lying on Quirks Creek or Quirks Run in Boyle County, joining the lands of Samuel Kirkham. He settled in 1779, and satisfactory proof being made to the Court, they were of the opinion that Quirk has right to the 400 acres.
(Source: Certificate Book of the Virginia Land Commission 1779-1780, p. 61)
1783
In August of 1783, Edward Quirk was listed residing in Lincoln County, Kentucky. (Source: Kentucky Genealogist Vol 11, No 1, 1969)
Edmund Quirk is listed as being sued several times in Kentucky, and in one case he was ordered to pay 96 pounds. He also served on a jury in Kentucky.(Source: Kentucky Genealogist, Vol 7, No. 4, p. 137, 141)
1792
Anne Eulalia Querk , daughter of Edmond and Anne Alsup, born in nation of the "Jactas:(Choctaws). (Source: Natchitoches by Mills. Abstracts of Catholic Church Registers of French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste Des Natchitoches in Louisana. 1729-1803, Vol. II. Cane River Creole Series, Polyanthos 1977, p. 262)
1796)
Anne Eulalia Querk, January 3, 1796, baptism of Anne Eulalia, aged four years, daughter of Edmond Querk and Anne Olsup, now living at this post. Godparents: Placide Bosquet and Eulalie Bosquet.
Source: Natchitoches by Mills - full reference in 1792 entry for Anne.)
1799-1800
"Edmund Quirk, Sr., came from Virginia to Louisiana and into Texas first in 1792. He lived until sometime close the the Battle of San Jacinto and died either in Nacogdoches or San Augustine. (Source: Notes of Rev. Anton J. Frank)
He married Maria Anna Alsop and they migrated to Texas, settling on land on Bayou La Nana -eight miles east of Sabine River; land settled in 1819; killed by John Bodine in 1835 in San Augustine; Census Records 1799, 1801, 1804, 1824 Neutral Land Claims." (Source: A Biographical Directory 1773-1849)
Spanish established in east Texas the mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores in 1716, on Ayish Bayou but abandoned it in 1773. In 1794 Antonio Leal and his wife settled in the old mission site. Leal and his business partner Philip Nolan captured and sold wild horses. Nolan was killed by the Spanish and Leal and his wife were deported to Bexar. To pay legal fees, Leal's family sold the land to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Magazine Texas Co-Op Power, page 8-14, date not noted)
1799 Census of Nacogdoches, December 31
Mr. Quirk, American, married , native of Philadelphia, age 45, occupation fieldman Maria, his wife, native of America
3 sons ages 14, 10, 6 (Source: "Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. I, p. 318-319, G976.4)
Edmund Quirk, February 19, 1800 - was granted 4 leagues from the Spanish government by Commissioner Zejeda in San Augustine County. (Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 69, p. 236)
February 19, 1800 The Teguitana grant was made by Lieut. del Moral to Antonio Leal. Sold by Leal to Pedro Benigas, and then sold to Edmund Quirk. In his petition for title, the property was described as 4 leagues, including buildings, farms, fields, livestock, farming implements.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, by Blake, Vol. B. p. 12-14.)
"Quirk purchased 4 leagues of land buying both sides of Ayish Bayou (where town of San Augustine now stands). Land originally granted to Antonio Leal by Capt. Antonio Gil Ybarbo founder of Nacogdoches.(Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G. R. Crockett, at the S. F. Austin University Library.)
1801
"Number of foreigners in the Texas Frontier 1801 Census of Nacogdoches -- Pueblo of Nacogdoches - history of the foreigners in the pueblo and its entire jurisdiction with a statement of names, nationalities, conditions ages, time of residence and occupation. REIMUNDO QUERQUE, (also given in Spanish as Raymundo Kuerque) - American, native of Virginia, married, 45 years of age, residence 4 years, farmer. (By this it would seem that Edmond [Edmund] Quirk was born in1756 - which would tally with the 1834 census of San Augustine giving his birth as 1757). From this he was in Texas as early as 1797. Edmund Quirk, Sr., an American Revolutionary soldier, who was born in Pennsylvania, served in the War from Virginia and who came first to Louisiana and then to Texas in 1792. Quirk had a plantation on the Ayish Bayou in East Texas, worked by slaves, and once owned the site of the old mission at San Augustine, Tex. He was a prisoner in the Alamo after being captured by the Mexicans as a member of the Magee-Guiterrez Expedition but escaped. Quirk is featured in a moving exhibit on the bicentennial prepared by scholars at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio, a part of the University of Texas system. He will also be listed on a large bronze plaque to be placed in the Capitol at Austin on or before July 4 of this year. This plaque is sponsored by the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution and lists 40 soldiers of the American Revolution who came to Texas, lived and died in Texas. Edmund Quirk Sr. died in1836 in San Augustine and is buried there.
(Source: newspaper article, 1976, paper and date not noted, "Southwest Historical Quarterly,
Notes and Documents, Vol. 66, p. 476-77)
1802
Case over horse Edmund sold to Christian Hesser that was claimed by Dennis Linman. (Source: Bexar Archives: A Name Guide, p. 544)
1803
Finding that land he had purchased from Antonio Leal was not suitable for summer pasture for his herd of cattle, Edmund Quirk petitioned Lieutenant Governor Miguel Musquiz for a grant of land at "Arroyo de Dragoon, ... western part of Sabine River, 3 leagues from its banks ... one league in each principal direction, in such a manner to form a perfect square, which fronts are two leagues in length and the said plain may be the center of said square. .. in this space of land, I being able to have sufficient summer pasture for my present cattle and those that will be reared, ... I beg of you that you grant me this favor which I hope to deserve of the equity of your honor. Nacogdoches, May 12, 1803, Edmund Quirk" This petition was passed to Don de la Bega to investigate if the land was vacant, and if so to grant it to Edmund Quirk. (Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol. 4, p. 200-201, University of Texas Archives, Austin)
1807
Edmund Quirk made another application for confirmation of title of ownership for his land on the Sabine River near Nacogdoches. (Source: Notes for "Two Centuries of East Texas" by Rev. G.L Crockett, take at S.F. Austin University Library)
Edmund Quirk's petition for title was granted February 21, 1807 by Don Franco Viena, Adjutant Inspector of Nacogdoches.(Source: Bexar Archives by Blake ,Vol. B. p. 16)
1808
Case against Edmund Quirk for contraband of horses. His wife petitions for return of confiscated stock.
Source: (Bexar Archives, 1717-1836, A Name Guide, p. 545.)
1809
"Although he is called Edmond Quirk is almost universally in Texas records and usually in in Nacogdoches Records. He is also referred to as Edward from time to time."
(Source: First Census of Texas 1829-36 p. 4, "Census of San Augustine District or Municipality 1834-36") "The Texas Census of 1809 between Nacogdoches and Sabine River showed Edmund Quirk absent, Anna Alsop (his wife) age 50 (born 1759) Edmond Jr. age 22 (born 1787) Anna Quirk, age 15 (born 1794) all born in Virginia."
(Source: Texas Census of 1809)
"Life and Activities of Anna Alsop, August 16, 1809 -- Sworn statement which I, Anna Alsop, make of my nativity and the rest that I shall express in the following manner: Anna Alsop, of the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion, a native of Pennsylvania, of the United States of American,and having with her little ones gone to Kentucky, in this place she married Edmund Quirk, a native of the Province of Virginia of the same States, with whom he came to the province of Louisiana,and they came to this Post of Nacogdoches in the year 1800, where they established themselves ona ranch, from which her said husband separated himself, a fugitive, and she who explains maintains herself with her labor; she has one unmarried son and a daughter; and not having documents to add to this her statement, she makes a sign of a cross, because of not knowing how to write; Don Jose de la Bega and Don Manuel Bustamante who signed, being witnesses in Nacogdoches, August 16, 1809.
Witness: Sign of a Cross of
Jose Luis de la Bega X
Anna Alsop
Witness: Manuel Bustamante"
(Source: Bexar Archives, Blake Vol 6, p. 406, University of Texas Archives, Austin, Texas,
research by Mamie Bavouset)
1810
In the report of Don Jose Maria Guadiana, Commandant of the village of Nacogdoches, on foreigners living there and their conduct, he states that Edmund Quirk, Sr., (father-in-law of resident Anthony Parrot) "is a fugitive from here and makes his residence in the Province of Louisiana, and also between the Arroyo Hondo and the Sabine River, united with other foreigners. On account of the short distance that intervenes from said Sabine to Ays Bayou, the
communication is not difficult, which the said Quirk may be able to have with his son-in-law and family."
(Source: Bexar Archives, by Blake, Vol. 7, p.111-112)
Henry Quirk, the brother of Edmund, is tried and confesses to conducting illegal horse trading between the Spanish Texas and Louisiana. Henry states that he had been living on the ranch of his brother Edmund since September 1807 and that he went from this ranch to Natchez, then to
Natchitoches buying and selling horses. Henry states he engaged in this illegal business to make money to send to his poor mother living in Kentucky.1811
"Letter from John Sibley, Indian Agent Natchitoches, Louisiana to Secretary Flores 'On the 5th ____ Mr. Edmund Quirk arrived here from Nacogdoches and gave me at my own house the following information ... this day a Mr. Chilens confirmed the account of a general revolution in the Kingdom of Mexico."
(Source: "Texas Letters in 1811" published by the Yonagua Society, San Antonio, 1941, Vol. 6, page 160.)
1812
Edmund Quirk takes part in Gutierrez-Magee Expedition against the Spanish. He was captured at the battle of Medina, was jailed in the Alamo and released.
(Source:Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 66, pp. 476-77)
Later he joined the Major Guiterrez Expedition and marched to San Antonio where after initial success the expedition became disorganized and later under General Toledo was beaten in the Battle of Medina. Quirk was taken prisoner and for several months lay prisoner in one of the cells of the Alamo Mission. He escaped and was next in the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana with his sons Edmund Jr. and William.
1814-1819
In the meantime, the Spanish cleared out all foreigners from the Nacogdoches San Augustine - Sabine area and left this country empty. A few years later inhabitants started coming back and some joined the Long Expedition of 1819. (As late as 1818 Edmond was still in Natchitoches from records in San Augustine County Courthouse. (General Index to Deeds No. 1, Book B P. 88, Book F, pp. 123-24 which copies of records in Natchitoches Louisiana 1818. (He was there in April 17, 1814, according to the Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. III, page 230. 'Claims in the Western District of Louisiana where he had land on Dieu Domine stream also Bayou La Nana. His brother Henry had received land on Bayou Pierre April 26, 1790 from Spanish Title, page 623, (Calendar of American State Papers, Vol. I, printed Washington D.C. by Gales and Seaton in 1832.) So did Chireno. All three went back and forth between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches.
1818
Edmund Quirk, Sr. conveys portions of his land on Ayish Bayou to his three sons-in-law . Raymond Daley, Letney Parrott and John Ayres all served with the pirate Lafitte at the battle of New Orleans and in Galveston. When Lafitte left Galveston, they remained in Texas. Parrott married Edmond Sr.'s daughter Martha. Daley married his daughter Ann. (Daley was her second husband. Louis Ayres married a daughter or granddaughter.
Lafitte's records list: Raymon Daley 1818 apprentice seametre; Latney Parrott 1904-1819 - Gardien de Cassin; Louis de Ayres - 1817 - carpenter.
(Source: Notes for Two Centuries of East Texas" by G.L. Crockett, done at S.F. Austin University Library)
1821
Mexico expels Spanish and Mexican Government now controls Texas, including Nacogdoches where Edmund Quirk still claimed land.
1824
Edmund Quirk was back in he Nacogdoches San Augustine area by 1824 (and maybe earlier) because of the change of government, to keep his lands -- he had stayed out of Texas after he escaped from the Alamo in 1812, as long as Spain was in control, but after 1821-22 Mexico was in control, he came back.
Nacogdoches Archives, Vol XXXIII page 296 shows petition of 35 Anglo settlers on the Attoya and Sabine on February 16, 1824 to Don Jose Atonio Saucedo, Political Chief of the Province of Texas that 'Edmond Quirk claims under an old Spanish Grant to have a right to 12 sq. miles of land --- these are the best between Nacogdoches and the Sabine River --- over 20 American families have settled on it ... But the Sr. Quirk is employing every possible means for intimidating and molesting these settlers. He personally went to their houses (remember he was at least 66 at this time) prohibiting them to cut timber, clearing lands or making any improvements ... public notices imposing $500 to the trespassers Vol. 33, page 300 Nacogdoches Archives 4/3/1824. Sanedno sent to investigate all lands until a hearing on Quirk's claim could be established. Vol. 33, p. 292 2/17/1826, 23 American families ordered to be expelled who settled on land of Edmund Quirk."
(Source: Notes of Rev. George R. Crockett, Stephen F. Austin University Library, "Two Centuries in East Texas)
1826
Edmund Quirk was granted, on February 17, 1826, an order to expel 23 American families who had settled on his land, cutting down his trees and not leaving a field for his cattle. Senor Alcalde of Nacogdoches was told to remove the families, have them pay damages for losses Edmund suffered.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. XXVIII, p. 255
1829
April 11, 1829, sale of 1/2 mile of land by Edmund Quirk to John Boden.
(Source: Nacogdoches Archives, Vol. B. p. 27)
1830
"Jose Antonio Sepulnia petitioned for Citizen Raymond Quirk that my principal having obtained rights to a tract of land on the banks of the Ayish and in the locality called Tiquitone, said tract composed of 2 leagues in each direction by purchased from Don Pedro Purgas in 1801, Burgas having obtained same from Antonio Leal 1800 ... In virtue where of I pray that ... my aforesaid principal may not lose his rights he has to the land herein expressed, both by reason of his purchase and by reason of his very long imprisonment in one of the cells of the Alamo at Bexar in the year 1812, imperiled in the defense of the just cause of our mother Independence and of sacred Liberty, in addition to ... his excellency the Governor of the State having transmitted to the Political Chief of this Dept. a decree bearing the date 12/31/1825 and said Chief having transmitted to the Alcalde of this town 2/17/1825 for the survey of my aforementioned principal's land which order was executed by the Alcalde, Citizen Jose Maria Mora, in the year 1828 with citizen Santiago (Jones) Gaines as Surveyor..."
(Source: San Augustine County, Texas Deed Records, Volume D, P. 249, March 16, 1830)
1832-33
Founding of San Augustine, Texas: "In late 1832 local residents held mass meeting to decide where town should be situated and chose 15 men to make selection...The chosen site was at the northern crossing of Ayish Bayou on land owned by Edmund Quirk, part of a 4 league grant he had bought in 1801 from early Spanish settlers. The authorities in San Antonia approved Quirk purchase in 1828. [See Crocket 2 Centuries, pp. 61-62, 102-104]"
(Source: "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" by Margaret S. Henson and D. Parmelee, p. 59, published 1993)
In 1833 when the citizens of Ayish Bayou decided to build a town - San Augustine - on the old Dolores Mission site, Chichester Chaplain , son-in-law of Haden Edwards, said Edmund Sr. was at first unwilling to sell since he intended the mission site for his son Edmund Jr.
(Source: Crocketts Notes, C-Folder, Stephen F. Austin Univ. Library)
"The town (San Augustine) was founded on parts of four leagues granted by the Spanish government to Edmund Quirk in 1800. The title papers of Edmund Quirk are on display here today, and it was his son-in-law who in 1833 sold a section of the original grant to Thomas S. McFarland, as representative of a committee of Anglo-American settlers, for the original San Augustine townsite."
(Source: Southwest Historical Quarterly, Texas Collection, Vol. 69, p. 234-35)
"St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: Power of attorney, Sept. 23, 1833 by Edmund Quirk in favor of Thomas Quirk (his son) in which he declared that he was one of the legal heirs of the late Major Thomas Quirk who died near Lexington Kentucky. (This proves that relationship)
(Source: Vol H. p. 272 of Conveyance Records in Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.)
1834
"Edward Quirk and son Oct. 30, 1834 (1 league from Power and Hewetson in Bexar County (he apparently used his Irish for later grant and used his name Edward)
(Source: "Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas" by Virginia H. Taylor, p. 203)
1829-36 Census of Texas, San Augustine lists: Quirk, Edward, age 77, farmer (Source: First Census of Texas, 1829-36)
1836
Edmund Quirk Sr. died in 1836 in San Augustine and his estate was administered by his son-in- law Raymond Dailey...
"the old man was certainly a sturdy oak fighting for the U.S. in the Revolution, moving west to Kentucky (whick was part of Virginia before it became a state in 1792, which is why his children born in the early 1790's said they were born in Virginia. His mother was in Kentucky and his brother and two sisters, then he was in Louisiana pioneering, probably in that no man's land fighting for Independence from Spain, refugeeing back to Louisiana and then back to Texas to protect his lands when Mexico won its Independence and staying there alone (according to census age 77) to maintain his claim."
(Source: Handwritten notes, compiler unknown, files of Mamie Bavouset)
1838
Headright Certificate No. 228 for one league and one labor of land issued in the name of Edmund Quirk, deceased, by the Board of Land Commissioners for San Augustine County. This certificate application states that he came to Texas in 1834.
Census Records: 1773-1849 Nacogdoches
1. 1799 Edmund Quirk, Sr. in Texas with his wife Maria Anna Alsop
William Dill and wife Marguerite Quirk
2. 1801 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
3. 1804 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
4. 1805 Edmund Quirk Sr.
5. 1806 Edmund Quirk Sr. and his brother Henry Quirk
6. 1809 Edmund Quirk, Jr., son of Edmund Quirk Sr.
William Quirk, born about 1780 in Natchez in Texas since 1801
7. 1824 Edmund Quirk, Sr. and brother Henry Quirk Neutral Land Claims
8. 1831 Henry Quirk, born about 1815 Also 1832,33,34)
Jose De Los Reyes Quirk, born 1812, Also 1832, 34
(Source: Nacogdoches, Gateway to Texas, A Biographical Directory, 1773-1849, p. 43, 121
Notes for Maria Anna Alsop:
MARIA ANNA ALSOP - b. unknown
1809 Census of Nacogdoches lists
Edmund Quirk, born Virginia, age 22, single, farmer, came to Nacogdoches in 1800 from Virginia Anna Alsop Quirk, mother, born Virginia, age 50, came to Nacogdoches from Virginia in 1800
Edmund Quirk, absent
Anna Quirk, daughter, born Virginia, age 15
"Goods that they possess and with what permission they have them: A log house and fenced field, on land of one league in each direction, had from Don Pedro Buigas in sale authorized by Lt. Don Miguel Musquiz. He has 15 cattle, 4 horses, 2 hogs."
(Source: Residents of Texas 1782-1836, Vol. II, p. 31)
Notes for Raymond Dailey:
RAYMOND DAILEY - b. October 1796
ANNE EULALIA QUIRK DAILEY - b. February 8, 1790
--Lattney Parrott, , Raymond Daley and Louis Ayers served under the Frenchman Jean LaFitte on Galveston Island. Lafitte's men, along with Jim Bowie were slave traders. They would bring slaves up from Galveston and take them across the state line into Louisiana. At that time laws had been passed making it illegal to import slaves into the Unites States. When Lafitte went with most of his men to New Orleans and joined Jackson's army, Parrott, Daley and Ayers migrated to old Bevilport in Jasper County where there was a temporary settlement near the mouth of the Neches River. They then moved to Fort Teran, then to Towsend Bluff on the Angelina River and then to San Augustine or Ayish Bayou settlement. Parrott, Daley and Ayers married daughters of Edmund Quirk and settled on Ayish Bayou. Shortly thereafter, Parrott sold his land and moved.
--Dailey had part of the Quirk land east of the Carrizzo and lived on the tract between the bridge and the Jack Rohrer tract. He was friendly with the Martin Loggins family, also living in that area. Following a dispute with Preston Loggins, Daily killed Preston. When Daily was out on his gallery one morning about dawn, he was killed by Cade Loggins. The Loggins family then moved down on the Chinquapin.
(Source: "Two Centuries in East Texas" by George Crockett")
Father: John Myall QUIRK b: in Philadelphia, Penn
Mother: Rebecca QUIRK
Marriage 1 Maria Anna ALSOP b: 1762 in Pennsylvania
Children
William QUIRK b: 1780 in Natchez, Miss.
Marie (Martha) QUIRK b: 1785 in Kentucky
Edmund QUIRK b: 24 JUN 1789 in Virginia (later a part of Kentucky)
Anna Eulalia QUIRK b: 8 FEB 1790 in Land of Choctaws (now Natchitoches, La.)
Thomas QUIRK b: 21 APR 1781 in Harrodsburg Station, Kentucky
It is unknown at this time where he is buried.
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