| 14. | Spencer Forby Fine was born on 7 Jan 1808 in Tenn. (son of William Fine and Catherine Sievely, son of William Fine and Catherine Sivley); died about 1896 in Washington Co. AR.. Notes:
Spencer Fine family lived in Praire township in 1850 but moved to Clearcreek Township before the
1860 census was enumerated.
THE FINE FAMILY
The Fine Family were Holland Dutch. However, the name came from the word "Fen," the name for low marshy lands, and is sometimes spelled "Fenn" or "Finn". These Fines were a part of a settlement in the 1700ís. Before the Revolutionary War, the Fine family was located in Shenandoah County near the Newman, Denton and Thomas families form Long Island, on the waters of the Shenandoah River near New Market. In the First Independent Company of Dunmore County of 1775, the Fine signatures included Thomas Fine Sr., Peter Fine, and Vinott Fine. In the Dunmore County Militia in 1775 under the command of Captain Jacob Holeman were Andres Fine, John Fine, Philip Fine and Winenot Fine ( likely a spelling of Vinott). By the census of 1783 Thomas Fine was still residing there with four in his family, near his sons Vinott and John, but soon afterward, John and Vinott joined their brother Peter Fine who had married and moved to the French Broad River, near Fines Ferry, which became an early land mark.
The father of Thomas Fine was Peter Philip Fine Sr.,.(Born abt 1698)
John fine also served in the Revolutionary War with Philip. In 1804 Philip moved into Frederick county Virginia, just across the Potomac River, near the present site of Washington D.C. There he married the widow Catheryne Parrott, who had two sons and two daughters. It is possible that these came with the Fine family to Cocke County.
Major Peter Fine represented the Big Pigeon Baptist church in 1794 in the Holston Association and was the first or one of the first deacons of that Church after itís organization in 1787. His daughter Sally Fine married Abraham Job, born in 1775 the son of David Job. (Also spelled Jobe)
John Fine, son of Peter Fine, was born January 2, 1782 and died January 26, 1857. His wife Nancy was born on November 10, 1782 and died February 18, 1859. He came from Cocke County and helped organize the Baptist church on Fork Creek, later called the Baptist Church on Sweetwater, the first Sunday in June, 1820. The members of the Church met at his home the first Saturday in August 1821.
John had a grant, No. 686 from the State dated September 7, 1827. The present fair grounds are located on this tract of land. (Sweetwater, Tenn.)
The stage road from Philadelphia to Athens went by the Fine home, which was a Stand and Stopping place. Their children were John, Polly, Abraham, Sarah, Mahala, Minerva, Martha and Nancy. ( Lenoirís History of Sweetwater Valley)
John Fine , son of Major Peter Fine, was in the War of 1812 and married Nancy Lee in 1800. She was the daughter of John Lee and Agnes Jennings. The Lee children were Peter Lee, Minerva, who married Jobe Taylor, John M., Sarah, and Elizabeth, who married Isaac Hill, All moved to Ashland Oregon.
In 1833, Abraham Fine was made a Ruling Elder of the Pisgah Presbyterian Church of Newport, Of which Mrs. Elizabeth fine was a charter member in 1823.
The original family that came to Cocke County has also two other members, Wenden and Euphemeas fine. Wenden died ten years before Cocke county was known as such and nothing is known of what became of Euphemeas.
Captain John Fine located at what is now known as the Rutherford farm on Sinking Creek where he died.
Vinett Fine (also spelled Vinott or Winenot) entered and located on the land known as the Swaggerty Farm and now owned by the Unaka Tannery and James A.T. Wood.
Colonel John Sevier attacked a party of Indians on Indian Creek in the summer of 1781. The place was near the County Line, on the farm of William, Phillips. Seventeen Indians were Killed. Peter, John and Vinett participated in this battle. (This battleground was pointed out to W.R. Fine by his father Isaac, a son of Vinett.)
In the spring of 1783 ( This date may have been changed in error the actual date may have been 1893 if this is true it would change the birth date of Isaac Fine which might explain why in the record Isaac seems to be old for the birth of his first child, and the census of 1783 showed Vinett in Dunmore County.), Colonel William Lillard and Major Peter fine raised a company of thirty men and crossed the mountains to the Overhill town of Cowee and burned it because from this town had originated the aggressions upon the Big Pigeon and French Broad Rivers. Captain John and his brother Vinett Fine were members of this company. Such action antagonized the Indians who in the winter of 1783 began to steal horses and cattle from the Big Pigeon settlements.
Major Peter Fine and Captain John McNabb raised a company of men and followed the Indians across our mountains into North Carolina, where they killed one Indian and wounded another, but recovered the stolen horses. The Indians fired upon them Killing Vinett Fine, and wounding Thomas Holland and a man named Bingham. Because there was not time for grave-digging and apparently no safety in trying to escape with the body, the ice in the creek was broken and the body placed there. Before the men could return for it the creek became flooded by a sudden change in temperature, the body was washed away and never recovered. To this day the creek is known as Fineís creek
Vinett Fine had several sons and daughters ; Isaac, the father of W.R. Fine who married Nancy Wilson granddaughter of Major William Wilson for whom Wilsonville was named. A daughter Emma Fine who became the mother of Jasper Gray. There were four other daughters and five sons.
In the Law office of William M. Crawford of Newport a descendant of the Fine family , is the account book of Major Peter Fine, in which he began keeping records in 1790, it also contains the birth dates of his 12 children.
Abraham Fine son of Peter Fine remained in the Newport area and became High Sheriff. While Sheriff he raided and broke up an organized band of counterfeiters that operated near Wolf Creek. He was also named as a Commissioner during the 22nd General Assembly of the State.
Many of the Fines had remarkable events in their lives besides fighting in the Revolutionary War some of them also fought in the war of 1812, and the Civil War on both sides.
Facts about this person:
Alt. Born January 07, 1808
Tennessee (possibly 1810)
Alt. Died Abt. 1896
Washington County, Arkansas
Name (Facts Pg)
Spencer Forby (Corby??) Fine
Spencer married Jane Brandon between 1830 and 1861 in ?unknown. Jane (daughter of James J. Brandon) was born on 17 Apr 1818; died about 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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