Nancy "Nanny" McLemore

Notes:

Married a TEW.

Family/Spouse: Jeremiah Tew, Jr.. Jeremiah was born on 22 Feb 1779 in North Carolina; died on 19 Feb 1859 in Sampson County, North Carolina; was buried in Starling Cemetery, Spiveys Corner, Sampson County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jesse Tew was born on 15 Apr 1816 in Sampson County, North Carolina; died on 11 Oct 1894 in Sampson County, North Carolina; was buried in Starling Cemetery, Spiveys Corner, Sampson County, North Carolina.

Notes:

James L. McLemore, III shows him as (Simon) West McLemore.

Revolutionary War Pension:

McLemore, West..Pvt. NC Continental Army..In NC Army Accounts Vol VI Bk 11 is Continental voucher #3306 to soldier for 1/12/4 pounds issued by Lewis HOLMES, Clerk of Sampson County and Paymaster for Wilmington District. Soldier made a will on 2 January 1818 that was taken to probate in Sampson County on 16 Feb 1818. (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler)

Robert Butler also references a Deed (Book 5, pg 29) Rodger SNELL to West McLEMORE Dated 7 Jan 1775. 30 pounds for 70 acres "On the West side of the Six Runs." Land granted to William KING by patent dated 1769. Wit: James THOMSON and Bedradan CARRAWAY.

Sampson County Deeds Abstract of Deed, Book 7, page 191 West McLEMORE to Stephen KING I West McLEMORE of the State of North Carolina an the County of Duplin...for and in consideration of the sum of One Thousand Pounds current money...paid by Stephen KING of the County and province aforesaid....have given granted (etc.)....a certain tract or parcel of land containing by estimation Seventy Acres of Land...beginning at a White Oak on Henry KINGS line... In Witness Whereof I the said West McLAMORE have hereunto set my hand and seal affixed this Eleventh of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty One 1781 Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of me this deed Rice BLACKMAN, Henry KING State of North Carolina Duplin County January Court One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty One Then was the deed from West MACKLAMORE to Stephen KING was proved in Open Court by the Oath of Henry KING and ordered to be registered by William DICKSON C.C. Registered in the Registers Office of the aforesaid county in Book 458 and 459 by me this 29th day of September Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three 1783 Richard Clinton Regt.

Transcribed from the original by Melinda McLemore Strong 26 May 2005

1790 Census Sampson County NC Fayette District West Maclemore 1 male over 16, 2 males under 16, and 4 females

1800 Census Sampson County Fayetteville West Maclemore Males 0-1-1-0-1/Females 0-1-0-0-1 Males: one 10-15, one 16-20, one over 45 Females: one 10-15, one over 45

1818 Sampson County NC Will West McLEMORE 2 Jan 1818 Probated 2 Feb 1818 Wife: SELEY Daughters Zilpha PETERS and Nannery TEW Son: Redick McLEMORE Exec: Samuel PETERS Jonathan GODWIN Wit Geo LASSITER Jordan COATS (In NC Archives, Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler).

West married Celia "Seley" ??? before 1774. Celia was born after 1755; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Potentially also the parents of of the following individuals????

Nathaniel McLEMORE who on 3 Jun 1809 married Tabitha TAITE in Sampson Co., NC

Mary McLEMORE (age 23) who on 21 Nov 1811 married Sam CARTER in Sampson County

Elizabeth McLEMORE who on 29 Dec 1816 married Richard WARD in Sampson County

(Marriage information courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler. Unable to locate any of these couples in the 1820 through 1850 census index for North Carolina).

Notes:

James McLemore, III writes that . "Assuming William came with his father Wright to NC in 1750+/-, I assume his son William Jr. was born in Sampson Co., NC, but it's close enough that it could have been either Va. or NC. It was this William Jr. who I have as the ancestor of a lot/most? of the Johnson County NC family, of which our local high school principal Thomas McLemore is a member."

William McLemore was patented land (#2087) on 29 Oct 1772 in Duplin County (Bk 47, pg 94)...150 acres, grant #355, issued...entry #489, entered June 26, 1779, book #47, pg 94 -- E. side of Little Cohera. This later became part of Sampson County. (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler)

I have in my notes, unsourced, a reference to a deed between McLemore, William Grantee Book 6, Page 432 Deed Southey FISHER to William McLEMORE Dated 30 Nov 1779 30 pounds for 100 acres "on the side of little Cohary beg by marsh branch" Wit: John MORGAIN and Joseph FOULLER

Could he also be the father of Mary McLEMORE, who wed Jordan GILLAM in Sampson/Duplin County, NC in 1779. Bond: Harris GILLAM Wit: John Heflin Cooper

Sampson County Deeds Book Book 7, Page 294 Abstract of Deed William McLEMORE to Gabriel HOLMES

Dated 24 December in the...year after American Independence and the Year of our Lord 1780...

Between William McLEMORE of the province of North Carolina and County of Duplin and Gabriel HOLMES of the (locations) aforesaid

William McLEMORE for the sum of Thirty (30) pounds paid by Gabriel HOLMES .....convey a certain plantation...containing by survey One Hundred (100) acres of land lying and being in the County aforesaid On the East side of little Cohary being the plantation whereon the above said William McLEMORE now hath his dwelling...beginning by the marsh Branch ...Gabriel HOLMES...running up the Branch North East...running to the said Gabriel HOLMES line to the Beginning of the said land for Southey FISHER ....date the twenty second day of July 1774...conveyed by deed from the said FISHER for the aforesaid William McLEMORE....date the November 30th 1779 and from the said William McLEMORE to the above said Gabriel HOLMES...(to include) all mines and minerals saving an fifth part of the ore of gold and silver...and minerals together with the liberty of Hunting Fishing and Trawling... .....Rents of four shillings...for every hundred acres of land hereby bargained and sold which yearly will become due and the said William McLEMORE for himself his heirs....

In Witness whereof I the said William McLEMORE have....set my hand...and affixed the day and year ....William McLemore (Seal) Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Owen HOLMES John (his mark) MORGAIN State of North Carolina Duplin County January Court 1782 William Dickson, CC Registered in....September 1783 by Richard CLINTON Regstr

(abstracted by Melinda McLemore Strong on 5 July 2005)

William married ??? ??? about 1752. ??? was born before 1736; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Could they also have had a son named Drew? (Drew was one of the first taxpayers of Sampson County, NC, along with William, West and Archibald)..

James McLemore, III thinks he was also the father of Elias McLemore, born ca 1758.

Notes:

Wright MACKLEMORE had 140 acres of land patented to him on the south side of Poplar Swamp in Isle of Wight County (the southwestern part, later Southampton County), Virginia on August 1, 1734 (Patent Book 15, pg. 242). Since Wright was not among the known sons of James and Fortune, and therefore must have been one of, if not THE, oldest grandson. Hence his father had to have been James' eldest son, William, as no one else could have been married by 1713, the latest date possible for Wright's birth.

Wright is known to have had at least four sons (and possibly a fifth) and two daughters. After 1750, he and his sons Wright Jr., William, Moses, and Drewry (and according to Rudy H. Leverett, also a James), and two daughters Judeth, wife of William PITMAN, and ???, wife of James WIGGINS, are found in Edgecombe County on or near land devised to Wright's father William Sr. by James, the original immigrant. Several of these family members moved southward into Duplin (later Sampson) County, North Carolina, in the 1770's, where Wright's son William is credited with founding a large family line. (James L. McLemore, III, p 51).

Robert McLemore (Bob) Butler PO Box 487Fuquay Varina, NC 27526 Email: rmbnc@juno .com
Briar Branch Baptist Church is the third oldest Baptist Church in Bladen County. The church had its beginning as a mission of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church of Sampson County [ed: Cumberland County] which some years ago was in Bladen County. According to the records of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church that church began holding conferences at Briar Branch on Saturday before the fourth Lords Day in October of 1828. This was some four years before White Lake Baptist Church was constituted as the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church and some six years before Hickory Grove Baptist Church was constituted. But Briar Branch continued to be a mission of Beaverdam Church until 1843, and was not duly constituted.

In a conference at Briar Branch on Saturday before the fourth Lord's Day in October of 1843, Beaver Dam Baptist Church agreed to dismiss the following members to constitute the church at Briar Branch: Amos Cain, Daniel L. Smith, Daniel Smith, Daniel Register, George W. Downing, Thomas Sessoms, William D. Smith, Baseter Davis, Edward Davis, Beaman West, Sarah A. Smith, Rhoda Gardner, Mary A. Downing, Elizabeth Smith, Aley Bryant, Margaret Sessoms, Anna M. Tatum, Elsa McLemore, May J. Tatum, Mary J. Reeves, Mary Register, John Smith, Sr., Evin Downing, William Harvey, John H. Tatum, William J. Cowan, Daniel R. Cain, John D. Smith, Owen J. Gardner, Nathan H. Jones, Meredith Cain, Helen Davis, Francis Sessoms, Ann J. Harvey, Mary Smith, Susan Smith, Martha Smith, Elizabeth A. Downing, Jane Weeks, Susan Smith, Sr., Mary Sessoms, Molsey Davis, James Smith, Theophlus Tatum, Wright McLemore, John Downing, James S. Beard, John Cain, Milton J. Smith, Thomas B. Cowan, William C, West, John Edge, Elizabeth Cain, Mary Downing, Pen[n]y Hayes, Sarah Suggs, Claressa Beard, Susan Smith, Zillpha Smith, Mary A. Cain, Francis Sessoms, Martha West.

Wright married ??? ??? between 1731 and 1733. ??? was born before 1715; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thought by some researchers to be Lavinia Drury, but this is not proven.

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James L. McLemore, III writes "But when we get down to Wright's children, I have come up with some dates of birth based on my analysis of Leverett's appendix entries in the third edition of his book "Ole Rosinheels", and the order of births then based on that analysis. I may start to get a lot of argument from one or more of you as to that, and in fact I am not entirely satisfied with having so many children born so close together (one year apart). But since several of these children went to the Duplin/Sampson/Bladen Counties area together, I figure the best place to start our discussion would be the basics, i.e., getting Wright's family more or less solidified (to the extent we can), or at least discussed, before going on down to the next generation or so where we find so many possible ancestors for those of you still trying to hook up."