William Christmas

Notes:

According to Ginger Christmas, Captain William Christmas, Sergeant Richard Christmas and young Robert Christmas were in the battle near Guilford Courthouse under the Leadership of Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Greene. First Major William Christmas was busy with his new wife, Abigail McLemore. He surveyed the new lands in Tennessee, Kentucky and the Mississippi Territory. In 1791 he was one of the men working on the First map of North Carolina with Price and Strothers, served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and the Senate. He resigned his post as a Colonel and then took a party of settlers into the Tennessee area in 1800. Nathaniel and Richard Christmas joined him and opened a land office in the Knoxville area in 1801.

Mark Freeman instead shows him as a son of Thomas and Temperance Christmas.

866. Smith and Owsley, eds., "The Papers of Andrew Jackson" , vol. I: 1770-1803, p..125. .. (Courtesy of Robert McLemore Butler)

William Christmas was employed as surveyor by the Commissioners who laid off the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1792. Later he was appointed Surveyor-General of Tennessee and in this capacity made surveys of the Military Reservation on which the North Carolina land grants were based. With his office located in Nashville, he also laid off ranges and sections for presumably the First, Second, and Third Surveyor's Districts in 1807. It was decided these maps were inaccurate and subsequently John Drake, among others, corrected them.

William married Abigail McLemore on 28 Aug 1780 in Warren County, North Carolina. Abigail (daughter of Atkins McLemore and Sarah Jones) was born between 1760 and 1768 in Granville County, North Carolina; died in Jun 1828 in Williamson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]