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Young McLemore

Male Abt 1726 - Bef 1804  (~ 78 years)


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  • Name Young McLemore  [1, 2
    Born Abt 1726  Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 9 Apr 1804  Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • Young followed his brother Atkins westward. After buying 100 acres from Atkins in 1753, then selling 100 acres to Edward Robertson with Atkins in 1755, Young also began operations in Granville County, buying 275 acres there on both sides of Shocco Creek by deed witnessed by his brother.

      Sept. 18, 1759 - Littlebury Swinney also White, aged 9 yrs May 15, 1759, bound to Young McLemore "to learn the business of a Planter and to have a years Schooling", said McLemore "at the time of his freedom" agrees to give him "a young Horse Bridle & Saddle & decert suit of Cloaths." (Source: Bastardy Bonds from Granville County, N.C., 1749-1780, as transcribed at:
      http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgranvi/other/bas-bond.htm)

      Young remained for a time, however, in Northampton County, serving in 1760 in that county's militia as a private in the cavalry troop of Capt. Henry Dawson. He was granted, also in 1760, 640 acres on both sides of Flat Creek in Granville County, and from then on made his home there. He picked up an additional 543 acres at the head of Shocco Creek, near his earlier tract, in February 1762.

      Within three months, in May 1762, Young sold 200 acres on the north side of Shocco Creek, adjoining Ward and Macon. He was joined in this deed by his wife, Lucy. Thereafter, his lands seem to share a jurisdictional history similiar to Atkins', being found first in Granville County (where Young witnessed two deeds in 1763), then in Bute County (where he also witnessed a deed in 1766), then in Warren County (where he picked up four extra acres on the South Side of Sandy Creek in 1779), and finally in Franklin County where both he and his son Young Jr. were heads of household in the first U.S. Census of 1790.

      On the last day of 1803, Young McLemore signed his will, and it was probated in Williamson County in April 1804. His principal legatees were his daughter Sukey GRAY and her children, though he mentioned another granddaughter as well. He is also known to have had at least two sons, Young Jr. and Nathaniel. His wife, Lucy died shortly before he did in 1803.

      (James L. McLemore, III. pp 45-46).

      Will Book 1800-1812, pp. 10-11:
      April 1804: Young McLEMORE
      named:
      dtr Sukey GRAY
      gson Young A. GRAY
      gdtr Polly W. DICKSON
      gdtr Sukey M. L. GRAY
      gson James McK. [McL.?] GRAY
      gdtr Sally S. GRAY
      gson Henry K. GRAY
      "I desire $1000 to be paid out of my estate toward the payment of the large tract of land that James GRAY bought of Gene ROBERTSON provided that the said GRAY divides the same equally between his two sons James M. K. GRAY and Henry K. GRAY, reserving to his wife" permission to live there until she dies
    Person ID I21664  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Abraham Macklemore,   b. Aft 1664, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1735, Bertie County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Mother Mary Young,   b. Bef 1702,   d. Aft Feb 1737, Northhampton County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Married Abt 1720  [1, 4
    Family ID F7601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lucy Nicholson,   b. Abt 1743,   d. Abt 1803, Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Children 
     1. Sukey McLemore,   b. Abt 1765, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1821, Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
     2. Young McLemore, Jr.,   b. Abt 1768, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Nathaniel McLemore,   b. Abt 1780, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2011 
    Family ID F7611  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1726 - Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Bef 9 Apr 1804 - Williamson County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13.

    2. [S1094] Carroll County Homecoming '86 Historical Book Committee "History of Carroll County, Tennessee" (Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY) First Printing 1986, Second Printing 1998, p. 257 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S206] McLemore, James L. III ("The Early History of the McLemore Family of Virginia and the Carolinas"), p 43 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S206] McLemore, James L. III ("The Early History of the McLemore Family of Virginia and the Carolinas"), p 40 (Reliability: 3).